Article
Unnecessary antibiotic treatment of children hospitalized with RSV-bronchiolitis: risk factors and prescription patterns
2021-07-20
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a main cause of respiratory tract infections, especially affecting young children. Antibiotics are often unnecessarily prescribed for the treatment of RSV. Such treatments can have effects on antibiotic resistance in future bacterial infections of treated patients and the general population. <h4>Objectives</h4> We sought to understand the risk factors for an...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7fbe2fc5-6f93-52cc-8918-4e1f8466e5cd
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.07.17.21260687
