1819. Antibiotic Prescribing Feedback: Description of Denominator Metrics to Standardize Prescribing Rates for Peer Comparison

antibiotic and interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing

Antithrombotic prescribing in atrial fibrillation: application of a prescribing indicator and multidisciplinary feedback to improve prescribing.

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation is common in older people, and is associated with an increased risk of ischaemic stroke. Antithrombotic therapy reduces stroke-risk, but is known to be under-prescribed. OBJECTIVES To use an evidence-based indicator to audit antithrombotic prescribing for older hospital inpatients with atrial fibrillation, and to assess whether feedback of audit results to hospi...

Tensions in antibiotic prescribing.

Since 1999, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has funded seven centers across the country to provide practical guidance to physicians and other health care professionals about the drugs they prescribe. These Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) develop, translate and disseminate objective information on drugs to improve practice. The University of Pennsylvania...

Trends in antibiotic prescribing.

Frischer et al., through analysis of the West Midlands General Practice Research Database, identify a reduction in antibiotic prescribing of 16 per cent between 1993 and 1997. They also demonstrate that this decline in antibiotic prescribing was concentrated in conditions such as respiratory tract infection. More recent data support a further fall in the overall prescribing of antibacterials by...

Skin infections and antibiotic prescribing: a comparison of surveillance and prescribing data.

BACKGROUND Reductions in the number of dispensed antibiotics and the incidence of respiratory infections presented to GPs and have been reported. Whether this trend applies to skin infections requires further investigation. AIM To examine trends in the incidence of skin infections in relation to trends in dispensed prescriptions for flucloxacillin, topical fusidic acid, mupirocin, and cortico...