France is a country strong consumer of antibiotics in Europe, specially in primary care. Outpatient antibiotic use represents around 90% of total antibiotic use and prescriptions come mainly from general practitioners. A literature review of antibiotic stewardship in primary care show that there is no evaluation of interest of giving information about consumption of antibiotics and bacterial resistance to general practitioners. The objective of this study is to demonstrate that practitioners implicated in the followed of consumption of antibiotics and bacterial resistance around their geographical area of practice could change and improve their practices in good use of antibiotics.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
472
Physicians will be given informations regarding antibiotic consumptions and bacterial resistance in their activity area every 3 months during 12 months.
Consumption of antibiotics
Antibiotics consumptions are provided by CNAMTS and calculated in defined daily dose DDD/1000 patient-days around the geographical area concerned by this study.
Time frame: 36 months
Bacterial resistance of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus
The number of intermediate and resistant strains of E.coli and S.aureus are provided by MedQual around the geographical area concerned by this study.
Time frame: 36 months
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