Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing still rampant

antibiotic and interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing

Curbing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing: What Works?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has campaigned to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for more than 20 years, yet antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory tract infections, which generally do not require antibiotic treatment, have decreased only modestly for children and not at all for adults.1,2 Physicians are aware of the problem of resistance to antibiotics, but ...

Predictors of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing among primary care physicians.

BACKGROUND Inappropriate use of antibiotics promotes antibiotic resistance. Little is known about physician characteristics that may be associated with inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. Our objective was to assess whether physician knowledge, time in practice, place of training and practice volume explain the differences in antibiotic prescribing among physicians. METHODS A historical coh...

Effects of Behavioral Interventions on Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care 12 Months After Stopping Interventions.

Effects of Behavioral Interventions on Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care 12Months After Stopping Interventions Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing contributes to antibiotic resistance and leads to adverse events.1 A clusterrandomized trial of 3 behavioral interventions2 intended to reduce inappropriate prescribing found that 2 of the 3 interventions were effective.3 This stu...

Behavioral interventions to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing: a randomized pilot trial

BACKGROUND Clinicians frequently prescribe antibiotics inappropriately for acute respiratory infections (ARIs). Our objective was to test information technology-enabled behavioral interventions to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for ARIs in a randomized controlled pilot test trial. METHODS Primary care clinicians were randomized in a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial experiment with 3 intervent...