BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) often feel uncomfortable when patients request an antibiotic when there is likely little benefit. This study evaluates the effect of access to point-of-care tests on decreasing the prescription of antibiotics in respiratory tract infections in subjects who explicitly requested an antibiotic prescription. METHODS Spanish GPs registered all cases of respir...

INTRODUCTION General dentists issue approximately 10% of antibiotic prescriptions across the global medical community consummation. The use of antibiotics for the management of dentoalveolar infections should be considered only in the presence of an increased risk of a systemic involvement or to prevent metastatic infections. This study aimed to investigate the prophylactic and therapeutic anti...

Antibiotics are overused across the world by prescription, self-medication or over the counter (OTC) availability. In the UK, the agenda to increase patient choice has stimulated a move towards greater availability of OTC antibiotics. This trend needs to be urgently reviewed and controlled. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is currently reviewing applications for reclassif...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors that affect caregivers' decisions about antibiotic use in children in settings where antibiotics are available without prescription. METHODS In a house-to-house survey, 1200 caregivers in 3 periurban districts of Lima, Peru, were asked about antibiotic use in young children. RESULTS In this sample, 87.2% of children aged <5 years had received an antibiotic dru...

BACKGROUND Delayed antibiotic prescribing is promoted as a strategy to reduce antibiotic consumption, but its use and its effect on antibiotic consumption in routine care is poorly described. AIM To quantify delayed antibiotic prescribing in adults presenting in primary care with acute cough/lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), duration of advised delay, consumption of delayed antibioti...

BACKGROUND The 2011 Mycoplasma pneumoniae epidemic in Norway resulted in many GP consultations and significantly increased the prescription of macrolide antibiotics. AIM To investigate the signs, symptoms, course, and prescription patterns of antibiotics in patients positive for M. pneumoniae compared with patients negative for M. pneumoniae. DESIGN AND SETTING A retrospective case-control ...

Antibiotics are the most prescribed medication and misprescribing of antibiotics is a public health problem worldwide.Objective: Conduct meta-analysis to determine prevalence antibiotic prescribing, assess quality prescribing identify factors inappropriate in Morocco.Materials Methods: 92 articles found databases (35, 42, 55 50, Elsevier, PubMed, Google Scholar Other engines respectively).Resul...

BACKGROUND Antibiotic resistance is a growing concern and antibiotic usage the main contributing factor, but there are few studies examining antibiotic use and resistance in children. AIM To investigate the association between previous trimethoprim prescribing and resistance in urinary Escherichia coli (E. coli) isolates in children. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective, population cohort study...

OBJECTIVES Assessing the efficacy of an educational intervention that aimed to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions in primary care by motivating GPs to change their attitudes to communication and by empowering patients. METHODS One hundred and four GPs in North-Rhine/Westphalia-Lippe, Germany were cluster-randomized into intervention and control. GPs randomized to receive the interven...