Clinicians’ Views and Experiences of Interventions to Enhance the Quality of Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 408-416

  Anthierens, Sibyl ^a   Tonkin Crine, Sarah ^b   Cals, Jochen W ^c   Coenen, Samuel ^a   Yardley, Lucy ^d   Brookes Howell, Lucy ^e   Fernandez Vandellos, Patricia ^f   Krawczyk, Jaroslaw ^g   Godycki Cwirko, Maciek ^g   Llor, Carl ^h   Butler, Christopher C ^e   Verheij, Theo ⁱ   Goossens, Herman ^a   Little, Paul ^b   Francis, Nick A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^h UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

antibiotic prescribing; communication training; decision making; point of care testing; primary care; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STANDARDS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84939998530     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3076-6     Document Type: Article

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