Export this Abstract | Print this Abstract | Add to my preferred Abstracts list | My preferred Abstracts list (12) | Back to Search
Avoidable medical cost related to inappropriate use of antibiotics for acute upper respiratory infection.
- In: Administrative Pharmacy Section - Session Short Oral Presentations on Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 9:00-12:00
- At: Cairo (Egypt) (2005)
- Type: Presentations + Posters
- By: HSIAO, Fei-Yuan (Institute of Public Health, Health and Welfare Policy Management, Taipei, China Taiwan)
- Co-author(s): Huang (Inst.of Health&Welfare Policy, Taipei, China Taiwan)
Tsai (National Health Research Inst., Taipei, China Taiwan) - Abstract:
Background: Inappropriate antibiotic use is generally considered to be the primary cause of antibiotic resistance in the community. Well-established guidelines have, thus, recommended using antibiotics only when they are likely to be beneficial. According to CDC (U.S.) guidelines, nonspecific upper respiratory tract infections (URI) are not
.. The access to the whole abstract and if available the presentation file is available to FIP members and to congress participants of that specific congress.
Please login
Last update 28 September 2023