Increase in antibiotic prescriptions in out-of-hours primary care in contrast to in-hours primary care prescriptions: service evaluation in a population of 600 000 patients | Zendy

Gail Hayward | Zendy; R. F. R. Fisher | Zendy; G. Spence | Zendy; Daniel Lasserson | Zendy

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Increase in antibiotic prescriptions in out-of-hours primary care in contrast to in-hours primary care prescriptions: service evaluation in a population of 600 000 patients

Author(s) -

Gail Hayward,

R. F. R. Fisher,

G. Spence,

Daniel Lasserson

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkw189

Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , primary care , population , antibiotics , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , pediatrics , family medicine , environmental health , nursing , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

The objective of this study was to describe the frequency and nature of antibiotic prescriptions issued by a primary care out-of-hours (OOH) service and compare time trends in prescriptions between OOH and in-hours primary care.

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