TY - JOUR AU - Lin, Leesa AU - Harbarth, Stephan AU - Wang, Xiaomin AU - Zhou, Xudong T1 - Survey of Parental Use of Antimicrobial Drugs for Common Childhood Infections, China T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 7 SP - 1517 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In a large-scale survey of 9,526 parents in China, we investigated antimicrobial drug use for common childhood infections. Of children with self-limiting conditions, formal care was sought for 69.2%; of those, 53.4% received drug prescriptions, including 11.2% from parental demands. Where drugs were taken without prescriptions, 70% were from community pharmacies. KW - antimicrobial drug resistance KW - bacteria KW - self-medication KW - antibacterial agents KW - practice patterns KW - physicians KW - child KW - China KW - surveys and questionnaires KW - pediatrics KW - common cold KW - parental KW - antimicrobial resistance DO - 10.3201/eid2607.190631 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/19-0631_article ER - End of Reference