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Drug-specific quality indicators assessing outpatient antibiotic use among French general practitioners.

Abstract

Quality indicators assessing the use of antibiotics among general practitioners (GPs) would be useful to target antibiotic stewardship interventions. We adapted to an individual GP level a set of 12 drug-specific quality indicators of outpatient antibiotic use in Europe developed by the European surveillance of antimicrobial consumption project. We performed a cross-sectional study analysing reimbursement data on outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in adults in south-eastern France in 2009. Substantial heterogeneity in antibiotic prescribing among French GPs was observed, and opportunity to improve antibiotic prescribing can be identified.

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    • Authors

    Pulcini C, Lions C, Ventelou B, Verger P

    Institution

    Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Service d'Infectiologie, Nice, France.

    Source

    European journal of public health 23:2 2013 Apr pg 262-4

    Pub Type(s)

    Journal Article
    Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

    Language

    eng

    PubMed ID

    22843612