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| Title |
Prescribing style and variation in antibiotic prescriptions for sore throat: cross-sectional study across six countries
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| Published in |
BMC Family Practice, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12875-015-0224-y |
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| Authors |
Gloria Cordoba, Volkert Siersma, Beatriz Lopez-Valcarcel, Lars Bjerrum, Carl Llor, Rune Aabenhus, Marjukka Makela |
| Abstract |
BackgroundVariation in prescription of antibiotics in primary care can indicate poor clinical practice that contributes to the increase of resistant strains. General Practitioners (GPs), as a professional group, are expected to have a fairly homogeneous prescribing style. In this paper, we describe variation in prescribing style within and across groups of GPs from six countries.MethodsCross-sectional study with the inclusion of 457 GPs and 6394 sore throat patients. We describe variation in prescribing antibiotics for sore throat patients across six countries and assess whether variation in ¿prescribing style¿ ¿ understood as a subjective tendency to prescribe ¿ has an important effect on variation in prescription of antibiotics by using the concept of prescribing style as a latent variable in a multivariable model. We report variation as a Median Odds Ratio (MOR) which is the transformation of the random effect variance onto an odds ratio; Thus, MOR¿=¿1 means similar odds or strict homogeneity between GPs¿ prescribing style, while a MOR higher than 1 denotes heterogeneity in prescribing style.ResultsIn all countries some GPs always prescribed antibiotics to all their patients, while other GPs never did. After adjusting for patient and GP characteristics, prescribing style in the group of GPs from Russia was about three times more heterogeneous than the prescribing style in the group of GPs from Denmark ¿ Median Odds Ratio ( 6.8, 95%CI 3.1;8.8 ) and ( 2.6, 95%CI 2.2;4.4 ) respectively.ConclusionPrescribing style is an important source of variation in prescription of antibiotics within and across countries, even after adjusting for patient and GP characteristics. Interventions aimed at influencing the prescribing style of GPs must encompass context-specific actions at the policy-making level alongside GP-targeted interventions to enable GPs to react more objectively to the external demands that are in place when making the decision of prescribing antibiotics or not. |
Twitter Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 7 | 47% |
| Argentina | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 6 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 13 | 87% |
| Scientists | 1 | 7% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 68 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 16 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 12 | 17% |
| Unknown | 13 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 41% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 7% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 3 | 4% |
| Psychology | 3 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 13% |
| Unknown | 19 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 May 2015.
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#9
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