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Conditions
Interventions
Education at the primary care center (duration: 1 hour) will be provided to improve antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections. In the control practices, education with respect to correct
Sponsors
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care of the University Medical Center Utrecht
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: general practitioners willing to participate important to mention is that we include GPs of primary care practices and no individual patients. The number of participants therefore refer to the number of included practices.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: none
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| number of antibiotic prescriptions per 1000 patients in the practice per year number of PPI prescriptions per 1000 patients in the practice per year | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| General practitioners in the antibiotic intervention group register their own prescribing behaviour in daily routine care (anonymous patient characteristics, diagnosis, prescribing). Based on this information the rate of unnecessary prescribing (overprescribing) can be determined. Overprescribing will only be collected for the antibiotic intervention group in the year prior to the intervention and in the year after the intervention, via registration forms filled in by the practitioners. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactA.W. Velden, van der
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, STR 6.103 University Medical Center Utrecht
Outcome results
None listed