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Narrow- and Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Use among U.S. Children. - PubMed - NCBI

Narrow- and Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Use among U.S. Children. - PubMed - NCBI



 2015 Jun;50(3):830-46. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12260. Epub 2014 Nov 25.

Narrow- and Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Use among U.S. Children.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:

To provide updated estimates of narrow- and broad-spectrum antibiotic use among U.S. children.

DATA SOURCES:

Linked nationally representative data from the 2004-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component and the 2000 Decennial Census.

STUDY DESIGN:

Relationships between individual-, family-, and community-level characteristics and the use of antibiotics overall and in the treatment of respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are examined using multinomial choice models.

PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:

More than one quarter (27.3 percent) of children used at least one antibiotic each year with 12.8 percent using broad-spectrum and 18.5 percent using narrow-spectrum antibiotics. Among children with use, more than two-thirds (68.6 percent) used antibiotics to treat RTIs. Multivariate models revealed many differences across groups in antibiotic use, overall and in the treatment of RTIs. Differential use was associated with a broad range of factors related to need (e.g., age, health status), resources (e.g., insurance status, parental income, and education), race-ethnicity, and Census region.

CONCLUSIONS:

Despite encouraging reports regarding the declining use of antibiotics, large differences in use associated with resources, race-ethnicity, and Census regions suggest a need for further improvement in the judicious and appropriate prescribing of antibiotics for U.S. children.
© Published 2014. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

KEYWORDS:

Children; antibiotics; multinomial choice model; narrow- and broad-spectrum

PMID:
 
25424240
 
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 
PMCID:
 
PMC4450932
 [Available on 2016-06-01]

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