This study will explore the possible effect of a tailored educational intervention towards general practitioners, in order to improve antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory infections.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
118,621
Educational outreach visits to the CME-groups, work-shops, audit and feedback
The 433 recruited GPs had a total of 1336 717 office consultations of which 171 679 (12.8%) were RTIs encounters for 118 621 different patients. The GPs participated in peer continuing medical education (CME) groups in southern Norway. A multifaceted intervention was tailored, where key components were educational outreach visits to the CME-groups, work-shops, audit and feedback. Prescription Peer Academic Detailers conducted the educational outreach visits. During these visits, evidence-based recommendations of antibiotic prescriptions for RTIs were presented and software handed out for installation in participants PCs, enabling collection of prescription data. These data was linked to corresponding data from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD). Main outcomes are baseline proportion of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for RTIs and change in prescription patterns compared to baseline one year after the initiation of the tailored pedagogic intervention.
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Change in antibiotic prescription patterns for respiratory infections
From the 1.336.717 office consultations, main outcomes data (baseline proportion of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for RTIs and change in prescription patterns compared to baseline) was measured 1 year after the initiation of the tailored pedagogic intervention.
Time frame: 1 year
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