Compliance With Antibiotic Treatment in General Practice

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01291251

Enrollment

270

Registered

2011-02-08

Start date

2010-02-28

Completion date

2012-02-29

Last updated

2012-04-24

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Conditions

Patient Compliance

Brief summary

The guidelines of The Norwegian authorities concerning the use of antibiotics in general practice state that for several common diseases such as pneumonia and tonsillitis, antibiotics should be given four times daily instead of three times daily. The study´s aim is to see whether the patient compliance is significantly reduced in antibiotic regimes of 3 or 4 daily doses as compared to 1 or 2 daily doses.

Detailed description

All patients given antibiotic tablets, independent of diagnosis and medicament, are included. All patients give a written consent. Within a week after the end of the treatment all patients are contacted by one of the authors and asked a few standardized questions concerning their compliance with the treatment.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Any patient given antibiotics for any cause

Exclusion criteria

* Use of mixture instead of tablets * Tablets administrated by public health care services

Countries

Norway

Outcome results