Child care center exclusion policies and directors' opinions on the use of antibiotics

Nkuchia M. M'ikanatha; Leanne B. Gasink; Allen Kunselman; Kimberly Warren; Ebbing Lautenbach

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Child care center exclusion policies and directors' opinions on the use of antibiotics

Nkuchia M. M'ikanatha, Leanne B. Gasink, Allen Kunselman, Kimberly Warren, Ebbing Lautenbach

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We studied exclusion policies and child care center directors' opinions regarding antibiotic use for childhood illnesses. Among 135 respondents, 96.9% reported that they had written policies on exclusion of children for acute illnesses. Although 52.4% of respondents agreed that children are prescribed antibiotics unnecessarily, 89.1% believed that parents pressure physicians to prescribe unnecessary antibiotics.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	408-411
Number of pages	4
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	31
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/651305
State	Published - Apr 2010

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Epidemiology
Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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