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Antibiotic prescribing practices for acute respiratory illness in children less than 24 months of age in Kenema, Sierra Leone: is it time to move beyond algorithm driven decision making?
BACKGROUND: Lower respiratory tract infections are the leading cause of mortality in young children globally. In many resource-limited settings clinicians rely on guidelines such as IMCI or ETAT + that promote empiric antibiotic utilization for management of acute respiratory illness (ARI). Numerous...
Autores principales: | Moon, Troy D., Sumah, Ibrahim, Amorim, Gustavo, Alhasan, Foday, Howard, Leigh M., Myers, Harriett, Green, Ann F., Grant, Donald S., Schieffelin, John S., Samuels, Robert J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10519098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37749485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08606-0 |
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