Antibiotic prescription and antipyretic use in febrile patients attending emergency departments in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A cross-sectional study

• J. Moreira,
• C. Escadafal,
• S. Dittrich,
• P. Brasil,
• A. Siqueira

Affiliations

J. Moreira

Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Corresponding author.

C. Escadafal

FIND, Fever & Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

S. Dittrich

University of Oxford, Nufflied School of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

P. Brasil

Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A. Siqueira

Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil