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Prescription of antibiotics to pre-school children from 2005 to 2014 in Japan: a retrospective claims database study

Author(s) -

Satomi Yoshida,

Masato Takeuchi,

Koji Kawakami

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdx045

Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , retrospective cohort study , family medicine , database , antibiotics , environmental health , pediatrics , computer science , nursing , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Antibiotics are the most frequently prescribed medications for children but inappropriate antibiotic prescribing is prevalent. The purpose of our study was to access the nationwide trend in antibiotic prescriptions, and to ascertain inappropriate prescribing for upper respiratory infections (URIs) in pre-school children in Japan.

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