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Understanding physician antibiotic prescribing behaviour: a systematic review of qualitative studies.

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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.
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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.

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Influence of Work Values on the Prescribing Behavioral Intentions Regarding Antibiotic Use Among Primary Physicians in Hubei, China

TL;DR: In this article , the influence of primary physicians' work values on prescribing behavioral intentions regarding antibiotic use (behavioral intentions) was identified, and a hierarchical multiple regression analysis was employed to model the influence on behavioral intentions.
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Post–sign-off events in infectious disease consultation and the incidence of nonadherence to infectious disease recommendations in the post–sign-off period: A retrospective cohort study

TL;DR: In this article , the authors studied the descriptive epidemiology of treatment-related adverse events (ADEs) occurring after the Infectious Diseases (ID) physician has signed off on consultation and the epidemiology and predictors of non-adherence to ID recommendations in the post-signoff period.
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Akılcı antibiyotik kullanımı konusunda aile hekimlerinin bilgi ve yaklaşımlarının değerlendirilmesi

TL;DR: Sorumlu Yazar*: Handan ALAY, Atatürk Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi, Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim dalı, Erzurum/ TÜRKİYE
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Literature Review on Antibiotics

TL;DR: The plasmids transformation, transduction, conjugation and transposition are the most common ways in which bacteria or pathogen can strengthen the resistance mechanisms as discussed by the authors , this was once may be due to the capsules have low permeability to the pathogens.
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Vitamin T overdose?: examining the phenomenon of widespread use of the broad spectrum antimicrobial piperacillin/tazobactam.

TL;DR: The objective was to establish an experimental procedure and show direct results that unequivocally can be assigned as best practices for diagnosis and treatment of central giant cell granuloma.
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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

TL;DR: Without a way of critically appraising the information they receive, clinicians are relatively helpless in deciding what new information to learn and decide how to modify their practice.
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Outpatient antibiotic use in Europe and association with resistance: a cross-national database study

TL;DR: Outpatient antibiotic use in 26 countries in Europe between Jan 1, 1997, and Dec 31, 2002 was investigated by calculating the number of defined daily doses (DDD) per 1000 inhabitants per day according to WHO anatomic therapeutic chemical classification and DDD measurement methodology, and the ecological association between antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance rates was assessed using Spearman's correlation coefficients.
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Effect of antibiotic prescribing in primary care on antimicrobial resistance in individual patients: systematic review and meta-analysis

TL;DR: Individuals prescribed an antibiotic in primary care for a respiratory or urinary infection develop bacterial resistance to that antibiotic, which not only increases the population carriage of organisms resistant to first line antibiotics, but also creates the conditions for increased use of second line antibiotics in the community.
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Variation in antibiotic use in the European Union

TL;DR: There was profound variation in use of different classes of antibiotics, and detailed knowledge of antibiotic use is necessary to implement national strategies for optimum antibiotic use, and to address the threat posed by resistant microorganisms.
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Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care

TL;DR: Multi-faceted interventions combining physician, patient and public education in a variety of venues and formats were the most successful in reducing antibiotic prescribing for inappropriate indications.
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