Outpatient antibiotic prescription rate and pattern in the private sector in India: Evidence from medical audit data

The key objective of this research was to generate new evidence on outpatient antibiotic prescription rate and patterns in the private sector in India. We used 12-month period (May 2013 to April 2014) medical audit dataset from IQVIA (formerly IMS Health). We coded the diagnosis provided in the medi...

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Adolescent
Age
Age Distribution
Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use
Antibiotics
Antimicrobial agents
Biology and Life Sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
Classification
Common cold
Cough
Diagnosis
Drug Prescriptions
Drug resistance
Family physicians
Health aspects
Health economics
Health facilities
Health problems
Health surveillance
Humans
India
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Infections
Infectious diseases
Lung diseases
Medical Audit
Medical research
Medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Organic chemistry
Outpatients
Pediatrics
People and Places
Pharmacy
Population
Prescriptions
Prescriptions (Drugs)
Primary care
Private Sector
Public health
Respiratory tract diseases
Rhinopharyngitis
Studies
Tetracyclines
Trends
Young Adult
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Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use
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Common cold
Cough
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India
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Infant, Newborn
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Lung diseases
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Pediatrics
People and Places
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Population
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Private Sector
Public health
Respiratory tract diseases
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Studies
Tetracyclines
Trends
Young Adult
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