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

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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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hal-01500885 , version 1 (03-04-2017)

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Céline Pulcini, Caroline Lions, Bruno Ventelou, Pierre Verger. Drug-specific quality indicators assessing outpatient antibiotic use among French general practitioners.. European Journal of Public Health, 2013, 23 (2), pp.262-264. ⟨10.1093/eurpub/cks100⟩. ⟨hal-01500885⟩
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