Antibiotic Prescriptions and Prophylaxis in Italian Children. Is It Time to Change? Data from the ARPEC Project.

BACKGROUND:Antimicrobials are the most commonly prescribed drugs. Many studies have evaluated antibiotic prescriptions in the paediatric outpatient but few studies describing the real antibiotic consumption in Italian children's hospitals have been published. Point-prevalence survey (PPS) has b...

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Main Authors: Maia De Luca, Daniele Donà, Carlotta Montagnani, Andrea Lo Vecchio, Marta Romanengo, Claudia Tagliabue, Chiara Centenari, Patrizia D'Argenio, Rebecca Lundin, Carlo Giaquinto, Luisa Galli, Alfredo Guarino, Susanna Esposito, Mike Sharland, Ann Versporten, Herman Goossens, Giangiacomo Nicolini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4868290?pdf=render