Effectiveness of two types of intervention on antibiotic prescribing in respiratory tract infections in Primary Care in Spain. Happy Audit Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Active participation of GPs with the performance of point-of-care tests in the clinic is accompanied by a drastic reduction of antibiotic use in RTIs, primarily in infections considered as mainly viral.
PMID: 24768657 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Atencion Primaria - April 24, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Llor C, Cots JM, Hernández S, Ortega J, Arranz J, Monedero MJ, Alcántara JD, Pérez C, García G, Gómez M, Guerra G, Cid M, Cigüenza ML, Pineda V, Paredes J, Burgazzoli JL, Munck A, Cordoba-Currea G, Bjerrum L, Happy Audit Study Group Tags: Aten Primaria Source Type: research