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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1999) 44, 839-842
© 1999 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Antimicrobial practice

Multiple prescriptions of antibiotics for children aged 0 to 5 years in relation to type of antibiotic

Nana Thranea,b,*, Charlotte Olesena, Henrik C. Schønheyderc,d and Henrik T. Sørensena,c,e

a The Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C, Denmark b The Medical Research Unit, Ringkjøbing County, Denmark c The Clinical Epidemiological Research Unit, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark d Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark e Department of Internal Medicine V, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark

Abstract

The risk of receiving more than one prescription within an antibiotic course was examined for all children aged 0 to 5 years in a Danish county during 1997. We identified 29,307 prescriptions of systemic antibiotics for 16,245 children in a prescription database. Ten per cent of the prescriptions were followed by a new prescription within 10 days. In children who received two prescriptions (n = 3993), 19% redeemed the prescriptions within the same course. When the child was prescribed penicillin V, compared with broad-spectrum penicillin, the odds ratio of receiving a repeat prescription within 1–2 days was 2.9 (95% CI 2.5–3.4) and within 3–10 days 1.3 (95% CI 1.2–1.5).

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* Corrrespondence address. The Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, University of Aarhus, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Tel: +45-8942-6111; Fax: +45-8613-1580; E-mail: nt{at}soci.au.dk


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