Prescription of antiviral drugs during the 2009 influenza pandemic: an observational study using electronic medical files of general practitioners in the Netherlands
Background After the clinical impact of the A(H1N1)pdm09 virus was considered to be mild, treatment with antiviral drugs was recommended only to patients who were at risk for severe disease or who had a complicated course of influenza. We investigated to what extent antiviral prescriptions in primary care practices were in accordance with the recommendations, what proportion of patients diagnosed with influenza had been prescribed antiviral drugs, and to what extent prescriptions related to the stated indications for antiviral treatment. Methods We used data from routine electronic medical rec... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
Schlagwörter: | Geneeskunde / Drug prescriptions / General practice / Influenza / human / Antivirals / Pandemics / Practice guidelines as topic |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28788244 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/287201 |