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

作者:Pulcini Celine*; Lions Caroline; Ventelou Bruno; Verger Pierre
来源:The European Journal of Public Health, 2013, 23(2): 262-264.
DOI:10.1093/eurpub/cks100

摘要

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.

  • 出版日期2013-4