Pattern of drug prescription for children under the age of four years in a population in Greenland

• Published in: Acta Paediatrica
• Main Authors: Hahn, G. H., Koch, A., Melbye, M., Mølbak, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2005
• Subjects: General Medicine; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Arctic; Greenland; Sisimiut; greenlandic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.2005.tb01795.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1651-2227.2005.tb01795.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1651-2227.2005.tb01795.x

Abstract Aim: To provide knowledge of drug prescription patterns in general and of antibiotics in particular, and number of consultations and diagnoses leading to prescriptions among children aged 0–4 y in the Arctic. Methods: A population‐based cohort of children aged 0–4 y, living in Sisimiut, the...