An Audit and Feedback Intervention for Reducing Antibiotic Prescribing in General Dental Practice: The RAPiD Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Elouafkaoui, Paula ^a,b   Young, Linda ^a   Newlands, Rumana ^c   Duncan, Eilidh M ^c   Elders, Andrew ^d   Clarkson, Jan E ^a,b   Ramsay, Craig R ^c  

^a NHS EDUCATION FOR SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFRADINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL PROCEDURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCOTLAND; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRACTICE PATTERNS, DENTISTS'; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84988927140     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002115     Document Type: Article

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