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Published on: August 30, 2018
Drug-specific quality indicators assessing outpatient antibiotic use among French general practitioners
Céline Pulcini1, Caroline Lions, Bruno Ventelou
1Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Service d'Infectiologie, Nice, France.
Abstract:
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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