European journal of clinical pharmacology
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Eur. J. Clin. Pharmacol. · Aug 2008
Outpatient antibiotic use and assessment of antibiotic guidelines in Chinese children's hospitals.
Our aim was to investigate outpatient antibiotic use and assess the impacts of intervention in five Chinese children's hospitals from 2002 to 2006. ⋯ The intervention had effects on the overall antibiotic use in outpatients. However, over the span of 5 years, there was a decrease in the use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics and an increase in broad-spectrum antibiotics.