High prescribers of antibiotics among general practitioners - Relation to prescribing habits of other drugs and use of microbiological diagnostics

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 409-413

  Steffensen, Flemming Hald ^a,c   Schønheyder, Henrik Carl ^c   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DENMARK; DRUG USE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCRIPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THROAT CULTURE; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0030697167     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365549709011839     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Greenwood D. Sixty years on: antimicrobial drug resistance comes of age. Lancet S346: 1, 1995.
2. Jensenius M, Von der Lippe B, Melby K, Steinbakk M. Antibiotika snart over og ut? Tidskr Nor Laegefor 115: 3382-6, 1995.
3. Burke JP. How to maintain the miracle of antibiotics. Lancet 345: 977, 1995.
4. Jensenius M, Von der Lippe B, Melby K, Steinbakk M. Fornuftig antibiotikaforbruk hva er del? Tidskr Nor Laegefor 115: 3504-7, 1995.
5. Nordisk läkemedelsstatistik 1990 - 1992. Uppsala: Nordiska läkermedelsnämden, 1993.
6. Renneberg J, Rosdahl VT. Epidemiological studies of penicillin resistance in Danish Staphylococcus aureus strains in the period 1977-1990. Scand J Infect Dis 24: 401-9, 1992.
7. EpiNyt. Multiresistente pneumokokker i Nordjylland. København: Statens Serum Institut, 18, 1995.
8. Ejlertsen T, Dessau RB, Højbjerg T. Ampicillin resistent Hæmophilus influenza. Ugeskr Laeger 156: 4141-4, 1994.
9. Dansk Lægemiddelstatistik. Laegemiddelforbruget i Danmark 1990. København: Dansk Lægemiddelinformation, 1991.
10. Lægemiddelstatistik 1994, Danmark. København: Lægemiddelstyrelsen, 1997.
11. Bro F, Mabeck, CE. Variation in use of penicillin for treatment of sinusitis in general practice. Scand J Prim Health Care 6: 175-8, 1988.
12. Howie, JG. Clinical judgement and antibiotic use in general practice. BMJ 2: 1061-4, 1976.
13. Howie JG. Some non-bacteriological determinants and implications of antibiotic use in upper respiratory tract illness. Scand J Infect Dis 15 Suppl 39: 68-72, 1983.
14. Cars H, Håkansson A. To prescribe or not to prescribe antibiotics. Scand J Prim Health Care 13: 3-7, 1995.
15. Friis H, Bro F, Mabeck CE, Vejlsgaad R. Use of antibiotics in general practice in Denmark in 1987. Scand J Infect Dis 21: 551-6, 1989.
16. Gould IM. Control of antibiotic use in the United Kingdom. J Antimicrob Chemother 22: 395-401, 1988.
17. Levy SB. Confronting multidrug resistance - role for each of us. JAMA 269: 1840-2, 1993.
18. Munck AP, Søgaard P, Gahrn-Hansen B. Luftvejsinfektioner i almen praksis - effekten af et auditprojekt. Ugeskr Lærger 157: 2851-5, 1995.
19. Mölstad S, Hovelius B. Reduction in antibiotic usage following an educational programme. Fam Pract 6: 33-7, 1989.
20. Capellá, D. Descriptive tools and analysis. In: Dukes MNG, ed. Drug utilization studies. Geneva: WHO, 55-78, 1993.
21. Sørensen HT, Larsen BO. A population-based Danish data resource with possible high validity in pharmacoepidemiological research. J Medical Syst 18: 33-8, 1994.
22. Sørensen HT, Sabroe S, Olsen J. A framework for evaluation of secondary data sources for epidemiological research. Int J Epidemiol 25: 435-42, 1996.
23. Statistix. User's manual. Tallahassee: Analytical Software, 1994.
24. Purves IN, Edwards C. Comparison of prescribing unit with index including both age and sex in assessing general practice prescribing costs. BMJ 306: 496-8, 1993.
25. Andersen TF, Pedersen OB. CCC bibliography on regional variations in health care. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Collaborating Center, 1985.
26. Bucks RS, Williams A, Whitfield MJ, Routh DA. Towards a typology of general practitioners' attitudes to general practice. Soc Sci Med 30: 537-47, 1990.
27. Bradley CP. Uncomfortable prescribing decisions: a critical incident study. BMJ 304: 294-6, 1992.
28. Kristinsson KG. Increasing penicillin resistance in pneumococci in Iceland. Lancet 339: 1606-7, 1992.
29. Stjernquist-Desatnik A, Schalén C, Ekedahl A. Erytromycinresistenta grupp A-streptokocker. Läkartidningen 91: 812-4, 1994.
30. Seppälä H, Nissinen A, Järvinen H, Huovinen S, Henriksson T, Herva E, Holm SE, Jahkola M, Katila ML, Klaukka T. Resistance to erythromycin in group A streptococci. N Engl J Med 326: 292-7, 1992.
31. Soumerai SB, Avorn J, Taylor WC, Wessels M, Maher D, Hawley SL. Improving choice of prescribed antibiotics through concurrent reminders in an educational order form. Med Care 31: 552-8, 1993.