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

Author(s) -

C. Pulcini,

C. Lions,

Bruno Ventelou,

Pierre Verger

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

european journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056

H-Index - 91

eISSN - 1464-360X

pISSN - 1101-1262

DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/cks100

Subject(s) - medicine , antimicrobial stewardship , reimbursement , medical prescription , antibiotics , drug utilization review , psychological intervention , quality (philosophy) , drug , family medicine , environmental health , antibiotic resistance , health care , nursing , pharmacology , philosophy , epistemology , microbiology and biotechnology , economics , biology , economic growth

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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