Monitoring adherence to guidelines of antibiotic use in pediatric pneumonia: the MAREA study

• Main Authors: Pasquale Di Pietro (Author), Ornella Della Casa Alberighi (Author), Michela Silvestri (Author), Maria Angela Tosca (Author), Anna Ruocco (Author), Giorgio Conforti (Author), Giovanni A. Rossi (Author), Elio Castagnola (Author), Maria Caterina Merlano (Author), Simona Zappettini (Author), Salvatore Renna (Author), the Pediatric Ligurian Network MAREA network (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Children are the most vulnerable population exposed to the use of antibiotics often incorrectly prescribed for the treatment of infections really due to viruses rather than to bacteria. We designed the MAREA study which consisted of two different studies: i) a surveillance study...