Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns for Hospitalized children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia in a Secondary Care Center.

Background: Narrow-spectrum antibiotics are recommended as the first-line therapy for management of children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). There are limited data evaluating the antibiotic prescription patterns for CAP in Saudi Arabia. The goal of this study to report on the antibiotic patterns in children hospitalized with CAP.