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- W1970703031 abstract "Background: More than 97% of febrile infants and young children have self-limiting viral infection and therefore, would not require antibiotics. Over prescription of antibiotics increases antibiotics exposure and development of resistance among patients. There is need to evaluate empiric antibioticprescription in order to limit its use to only febrile children with bacterial infection.Aim and Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of empiric antibiotic prescription among febrile underfive, post neonatal children presenting in the children outpatient clinic of the University of Port Harcourt teaching hospital. Method: Febrile Children aged 29 days to <60 months who presented in the outpatient clinic were recruited from September 2010 to January 2011. Their weight, biodata, symptoms, Physician’s diagnosis, and names of antibiotic prescribed were entered into a predetermined proforma and analysed.Result: A total of 362 children with male to female ratio of 1.03:1 werestudied. Two hundred and eighty three (78.2%) febrile children receivedempiric antibiotic prescriptions. The most frequent antibiotic prescribed was amoxicillin 80 (28.3%). Children aged 1-12months received the highestnumber of prescriptions 113 (80.7%). There was no significant relationship between age, temperature level, weight for age, number of symptoms and frequency of antibiotic prescription (p>0.05). Upper respiratory tract infection (83.7 %) and diarrhea (55.9%) were significantly associated withempiric antibiotic prescription (P=0.05 and 0.002 respectively).Conclusion: Empiric antibiotic prescription for febrile under-five children is a common practice in UPTH. Physicians should therefore reduce the frequency of antibiotics prescription in febrile children unless there is clinicalevidence of bacterial infection.Key words: Empiric Antibiotics, Fever, post neonatal under-five, Nigeria" @default.
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- W1970703031 title "Empiric antibiotic prescription among febrile under-five Children in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State, Nigeria" @default.
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