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To determine the proportion of children receiving antibiotics for common illnesses and to understand the antibiotic prescription ptern and factors influencing it, a cross sectional study was done among the private practitioners in Chennai, India 403 prescriptions by 40 physicians from selected health facilities were analyzed 79.9% of children with ARI (Acuite respiratory infection) and ADD (Acute watery diarrhea) were prescribed antibiotics. Penicillins (43.9%) were the commonest antibiotic prescribed. Factors like postgraduate qualification, experience of physician, source and method of updating knowledge, inpatient practice setting and presence of fever influenced the antibiotic prescription.
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Bharathiraja, R., Sridharan, S., Chelliah, L.R. et al. Factors affecting antibiotic prescribing pattern in pediatric practice. Indian J Pediatr 72, 877–879 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02731121
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02731121