Abstract
During 1997–2006, general practitioner consultations for skin conditions for children <18 years of age in England increased 19%, from 128.5 to 152.9/1,000 child-years, and antistaphylococcal drug prescription rates increased 64%, from 17.8 to 29.1/1,000 child-years. During the same time period, hospital admissions for Staphylococcus aureus infections rose 49% from 53.4 to 79.3/100,000 child-years.
Highlights
Staphylococcus aureus infection is a leading cause of staphylococcal bacteremia in adults [1] and children [2] in hospitals in the United Kingdom, and recent reports suggest invasive staphylococci are emerging from the community [3]
We counted prescriptions for all oral and topical antibacterial drugs prescribed for skin infections, and used all oral preparations containing flucloxacillin prescribed for skin conditions as a proxy measure of unresolved S. aureus skin infection
We used Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to calculate age–sex adjusted admission rates per 100,000 resident population for children
Summary
We used HES data to calculate age–sex adjusted admission rates per 100,000 resident population for children
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