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Multiple prescriptions of antibiotics for children aged 0 to 5 years in relation to type of antibiotic

Author(s) -

Nana Thrane,

Charlotte Olesen,

Henrik Carl Schønheyder,

Henrik Toft Sørensen

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/44.6.839

Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , penicillin , antibiotics , pediatrics , odds ratio , pharmacology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

The risk of receiving more than one prescription within an antibiotic course was examined for all children aged 0 to 5 years in a Danish county during 1997. We identified 29,307 prescriptions of systemic antibiotics for 16,245 children in a prescription database. Ten per cent of the prescriptions were followed by a new prescription within 10 days. In children who received two prescriptions (n = 3993), 19% redeemed the prescriptions within the same course. When the child was prescribed penicillin V, compared with broad-spectrum penicillin, the odds ratio of receiving a repeat prescription within 1-2 days was 2.9 (95% CI 2.5-3.4) and within 3-10 days 1.3 (95% CI 1.2-1.5).

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