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Prescribing under pressure : parent-physician conversations and antibiotics /
Antibiotics will soon no longer be able to cure common illnesses such as strep throat, sinusitis and middle ear infections as they have done for the last 60 years. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasing at a much faster rate than new antibiotics to treat them are being developed. The prescript...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Antibiotics will soon no longer be able to cure common illnesses such as strep throat, sinusitis and middle ear infections as they have done for the last 60 years. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasing at a much faster rate than new antibiotics to treat them are being developed. The prescription of antibiotics for viral illnesses is a key cause of increasing bacterial resistance. Despite this fact, many children continue to receive antibiotics unnecessarily for the treatment of viral upper respiratory tract infections. Why do American physicians continue to prescribe inappropriately giv. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 221 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195345537 0195345533 0195311159 9780195311150 9781429459471 1429459476 |