Survey of Parental Use of Antimicrobial Drugs for Common Childhood Infections, China

In a large-scale survey of 9,526 parents in China, we investigated antimicrobial drug use for common childhood infections. Of children with self-limiting conditions, formal care was sought for 69.2%; of those, 53.4% received drug prescriptions, including 11.2% from parental demands. Where drugs were...

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Autores principales: Lin, Leesa, Harbarth, Stephan, Wang, Xiaomin, Zhou, Xudong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32568044
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.190631
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description In a large-scale survey of 9,526 parents in China, we investigated antimicrobial drug use for common childhood infections. Of children with self-limiting conditions, formal care was sought for 69.2%; of those, 53.4% received drug prescriptions, including 11.2% from parental demands. Where drugs were taken without prescriptions, 70% were from community pharmacies.
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spelling pubmed-73235182020-07-01 Survey of Parental Use of Antimicrobial Drugs for Common Childhood Infections, China Lin, Leesa Harbarth, Stephan Wang, Xiaomin Zhou, Xudong Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch In a large-scale survey of 9,526 parents in China, we investigated antimicrobial drug use for common childhood infections. Of children with self-limiting conditions, formal care was sought for 69.2%; of those, 53.4% received drug prescriptions, including 11.2% from parental demands. Where drugs were taken without prescriptions, 70% were from community pharmacies. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7323518/ /pubmed/32568044 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.190631 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Survey of Parental Use of Antimicrobial Drugs for Common Childhood Infections, China
title Survey of Parental Use of Antimicrobial Drugs for Common Childhood Infections, China
title_full Survey of Parental Use of Antimicrobial Drugs for Common Childhood Infections, China
title_fullStr Survey of Parental Use of Antimicrobial Drugs for Common Childhood Infections, China
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title_sort survey of parental use of antimicrobial drugs for common childhood infections, china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32568044
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.190631
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