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Self-medication with antibiotics in a Swedish general population
Emma Svensson1, Flora M Haaijer-Ruskamp, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
1Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health (IHCAR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|August 17, 2004
Abstract:
To assess the extent of antibiotic self-medication in a Swedish population, a postal questionnaire was distributed to 1000 randomly selected subjects. The antibiotics used were in all but 3 cases reported to have been obtained with a prescription. Thus, prescribers are the primary target for interventions to optimize antibiotic use.