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The Family Physician's Reasonable Approach to Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Care for This Century

The Family Physician's Reasonable Approach to Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Care for This... EDITORIAL The Family Physician’s Reasonable Approach to Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Care for This Century PPER RESPIRATORY tract infections (URIs), generally poor health were appropriate to define a popu- the most expensive and widespread lation in which infections were most likely limited to a URI. malady in the United States, represent The population studied was virtually fully insured 9% of the practice of the average family (97.4%) and highly educated. These characteristics may U physician or pediatrician. They are the make the results a little less generalizable to a more in- most common infectious conditions of children, with the digent, less educated population, but we have no reason average child having 5 to 8 infections per year. The as- to believe that more educated people would be more likely sociated health care costs include 23 million lost work- to want antibiotics, a request contrary to factual knowl- days and 26 million lost school days. In the United States edge regarding URIs. Eighty-three percent were em- colds account for 21 million visits and 12 million anti- ployed and 78% were female—70% of the symptomatic biotic prescriptions annually, at an estimated cost in 1994 adults and 85% of the parent responders. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Family Medicine American Medical Association

The Family Physician's Reasonable Approach to Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Care for This Century

Bauman, Kay A.
Archives of Family Medicine , Volume 9 (7) – Jul 1, 2000
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EDITORIAL The Family Physician’s Reasonable Approach to Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Care for This Century PPER RESPIRATORY tract infections (URIs), generally poor health were appropriate to define a popu- the most expensive and widespread lation in which infections were most likely limited to a URI. malady in the United States, represent The population studied was virtually fully insured 9% of the practice of the average family (97.4%) and highly educated. These characteristics may U physician or pediatrician. They are the make the results a little less generalizable to a more in- most common infectious conditions of children, with the digent, less educated population, but we have no reason average child having 5 to 8 infections per year. The as- to believe that more educated people would be more likely sociated health care costs include 23 million lost work- to want antibiotics, a request contrary to factual knowl- days and 26 million lost school days. In the United States edge regarding URIs. Eighty-three percent were em- colds account for 21 million visits and 12 million anti- ployed and 78% were female—70% of the symptomatic biotic prescriptions annually, at an estimated cost in 1994 adults and 85% of the parent responders.

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Archives of Family Medicine – American Medical Association

Published: Jul 1, 2000

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