Antibiotic Prescriptions for Respiratory Tract Viral Infections in the Colombian Population

• Main Authors: Manuel E. Machado-Duque (Author), Diego Arturo García (Author), Melissa Hiromi Emura-Velez (Author), Andrés Gaviria-Mendoza (Author), Claudia Giraldo-Giraldo (Author), Jorge E. Machado-Alba (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Antimicrobials are frequently inappropriately prescribed for the management of upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs); therefore, the frequency of antibiotic prescriptions for patients with viral URTIs was assessed in this study. A cross-sectional study, including ambulatory patients diagnosed w...