[Antibiotic prescribing in respiratory tract infections and predictive factors for their use].

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Happy Audit project is a European-funded survey aimed at reducing antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections (RTI). The aim of this study is to investigate the antibiotic treatment administered for these RTIs in Spain and to find out which criteria are associated with its use.

Design

Cross-sectional study carried out in January and February 2008.

Setting

Primary health care.

Participants

General practitioners registered all the RTI during a 3-week period using a template.

Principal measurements

Age and gender, days with symptoms, signs presented (fever, cough, purulent ear discharge, sore throat, tonsillar exudate, swollen neck glands, dyspnoea, increase in sputum, purulent sputum), diagnosis, antibiotic therapy and demand of antib

SUBMITTER: Llor C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7022111 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature