N Spyridis, M Sharland. The European Union Antibiotic Awareness Day: the paediatric perspective. Arch Dis Child 2008;93:909–10. Owing to human error a reference was inadvertently omitted. The reference is 12a:

SACAR Paediatric Subgroup. The use of antibacterials in children: a report of the Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance (SACAR) Paediatric Subgroup. J Antimicrob Chemother 2007;60(Suppl 1):i15–26.

This should have referenced the following sentences in the third column of the first page:

In the UK, paediatric community antibiotic prescribing declined by over a third in the late 1990s and early 2000s following an international trend, but has now increased again by almost 10% since 2003.^12a Most antibiotic prescriptions are given to children with non-specific upper respiratory tract infections or for fever with non-specific diagnoses.^12a

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