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Understanding physician antibiotic prescribing behaviour: a systematic review of qualitative studies.
António Teixeira Rodrigues,António Teixeira Rodrigues,Fátima Roque,Fátima Roque,Amílcar Falcão,Adolfo Figueiras,Maria Teresa Herdeiro +6 more
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It is revealed that: (i) antibiotic prescribing is a complex process influenced by factors affecting all the actors involved, including physicians, other healthcare providers, healthcare system, patients and the general public; and (ii) such factors are mutually dependent.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 351 citations till now.read more
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Effect of physicians' knowledge on antibiotics rational use in China's county hospitals.
TL;DR: Targeted training programs to promote physicians' knowledge of antibiotic especially at county hospitals in the western regions of China are urgently needed after results confirmed that Physicians' knowledge significantly influences rational antibiotic use.
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Reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in upper respiratory tract infection in a primary care setting in Kolkata, India
TL;DR: This multifaceted intervention was successful at reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in URTI in a non-governmental organisation’s primary care outreach clinics in Kolkata, India, from 62.6% to 30% over 4 months, suggesting that approaches previously used in Europe can successfully be applied to different settings.
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Use of diagnostic tests and the appropriateness of the treatment decision in patients with suspected urinary tract infection in primary care in Denmark – observational study
Gloria Cordoba,Anne Holm,Tina Møller Sørensen,Volkert Siersma,Håkon Sandholdt,Marjukka Mäkelä,Niels Frimodt-Møller,Lars Bjerrum +7 more
TL;DR: In a context with wide availability of diagnostic tests, GPs use diagnostic tests for the decision-making process in all patients with suspected UTI and urine culture is used in the majority of the patients and is associated with a higher proportion of appropriate treatment decisions.
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What are the challenges for antibiotic stewardship at the community level? An analysis of the drivers of antibiotic provision by informal healthcare providers in rural India.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of antibiotic provision by Informal Providers (IPs) in rural West Bengal, to inform the design of community stewardship interventions and discussed the implications for a multi-stakeholder antibiotic stewardship strategy in this setting.
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Non-clinical factors determining the prescription of antibiotics by veterinarians: A systematic review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a bibliographic search of Medline, Web of Knowledge, and Cab Abstracts with the main objective of ascertaining the available evidence on non-clinical factors and attitudes that could influence the prescription of antibiotics by veterinarians.
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