TY - JOUR
T1 - Epidemiologie van ziekten en gebruik van receptgeneesmiddelen bij kinderen
T2 - Wat hebben en gebruiken onze kleine klantjes?
AU - Van de Vijver, D. A.M.C.
AU - Hugtenburg, J. G.
AU - De Boer, A.
PY - 2002/5/3
Y1 - 2002/5/3
N2 - In the present article epidemiological data on the most frequently occuring illnesses in children are presented. On the basis of pharmacy prescription data of the Pharmo database, pharmacoepidemiological data of the use of drugs by children are also given. In 1998 40,708 (63%) of 64,881 children were prescribed at least one drug. The prevalence of the use of drugs from the ATC classes antibiotics for systemic use, drugs for the respiratory system and dermatological preparations was highest with 24.1%,24.1% and 20.9%, respectively.The use was lowest for drugs from the classes oncolytics, cardiovascular drugs and gynaecological drugs with 0.08%, 0.7% and 0.9%, respectively. The use of amoxicillin, paracetamol and salbutamol amounted to 16.9%, 12.8% and 4.8%, respectively.
AB - In the present article epidemiological data on the most frequently occuring illnesses in children are presented. On the basis of pharmacy prescription data of the Pharmo database, pharmacoepidemiological data of the use of drugs by children are also given. In 1998 40,708 (63%) of 64,881 children were prescribed at least one drug. The prevalence of the use of drugs from the ATC classes antibiotics for systemic use, drugs for the respiratory system and dermatological preparations was highest with 24.1%,24.1% and 20.9%, respectively.The use was lowest for drugs from the classes oncolytics, cardiovascular drugs and gynaecological drugs with 0.08%, 0.7% and 0.9%, respectively. The use of amoxicillin, paracetamol and salbutamol amounted to 16.9%, 12.8% and 4.8%, respectively.
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UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290524777_What's_the_matter_with_our_little_customers_and_what_do_they_use_Epidemiology_of_illnesses_and_drug_utilization_by_children
UR - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Epidemiologie-van-ziekten-en-gebruik-van-bij-wat-en-Vijver-Hugtenburg/32c8f971260dc595d138bc0bfcf10afd93538233
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037012854
VL - 137
SP - 639
EP - 643
JO - Pharmaceutisch Weekblad
JF - Pharmaceutisch Weekblad
SN - 0031-6911
IS - 18
ER -