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Antibiotic prescriptions in primary health care in a rural population in Crete, Greece
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic over-prescribing has generally been considered to be common in Greece, however not much is known about current antibiotic use. FINDINGS: The aim of this study was to investigate antibiotic prescribing in a well-defined rural population of 159 adults and 99 children over a 12-m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21320356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-38 |
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author | Kontarakis, Nikolaos Tsiligianni, Ioanna G Papadokostakis, Polyvios Giannopoulou, Evangelia Tsironis, Loukas Moustakis, Vasilios |
author_facet | Kontarakis, Nikolaos Tsiligianni, Ioanna G Papadokostakis, Polyvios Giannopoulou, Evangelia Tsironis, Loukas Moustakis, Vasilios |
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description | BACKGROUND: Antibiotic over-prescribing has generally been considered to be common in Greece, however not much is known about current antibiotic use. FINDINGS: The aim of this study was to investigate antibiotic prescribing in a well-defined rural population of 159 adults and 99 children over a 12-month period in Crete, Greece. The daily-defined doses (DDD) for 1000 people/day (DID) were 22.1 and 24.2 for children and adults respectively. The overall DID was 23.4, markedly lower than that previously reported for Greece. The use of penicillins was 49.5% of DDD in children and 31.7% in adults. Quinolones represented 2.2% of the total antibiotics (0% in children). Prescriptions of antibiotics were more common during the 3-month period from January to March for both children and adults. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study confirm the seasonal distribution of antibiotics used and the predominance of prescribing for respiratory tract infections. In the area of the study, antibiotic use seems to be lower than that previously reported for Greece, probably as a result of the recently established net of well-trained primary health physicians. |
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spelling | pubmed-30429392011-02-23 Antibiotic prescriptions in primary health care in a rural population in Crete, Greece Kontarakis, Nikolaos Tsiligianni, Ioanna G Papadokostakis, Polyvios Giannopoulou, Evangelia Tsironis, Loukas Moustakis, Vasilios BMC Res Notes Short Report BACKGROUND: Antibiotic over-prescribing has generally been considered to be common in Greece, however not much is known about current antibiotic use. FINDINGS: The aim of this study was to investigate antibiotic prescribing in a well-defined rural population of 159 adults and 99 children over a 12-month period in Crete, Greece. The daily-defined doses (DDD) for 1000 people/day (DID) were 22.1 and 24.2 for children and adults respectively. The overall DID was 23.4, markedly lower than that previously reported for Greece. The use of penicillins was 49.5% of DDD in children and 31.7% in adults. Quinolones represented 2.2% of the total antibiotics (0% in children). Prescriptions of antibiotics were more common during the 3-month period from January to March for both children and adults. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study confirm the seasonal distribution of antibiotics used and the predominance of prescribing for respiratory tract infections. In the area of the study, antibiotic use seems to be lower than that previously reported for Greece, probably as a result of the recently established net of well-trained primary health physicians. BioMed Central 2011-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3042939/ /pubmed/21320356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-38 Text en Copyright ©2011 Kontarakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Kontarakis, Nikolaos Tsiligianni, Ioanna G Papadokostakis, Polyvios Giannopoulou, Evangelia Tsironis, Loukas Moustakis, Vasilios Antibiotic prescriptions in primary health care in a rural population in Crete, Greece |
title | Antibiotic prescriptions in primary health care in a rural population in Crete, Greece |
title_full | Antibiotic prescriptions in primary health care in a rural population in Crete, Greece |
title_fullStr | Antibiotic prescriptions in primary health care in a rural population in Crete, Greece |
title_full_unstemmed | Antibiotic prescriptions in primary health care in a rural population in Crete, Greece |
title_short | Antibiotic prescriptions in primary health care in a rural population in Crete, Greece |
title_sort | antibiotic prescriptions in primary health care in a rural population in crete, greece |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21320356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-38 |
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