Multi-faceted intervention to improve management of antibiotics for children presenting to primary care with acute cough and respiratory tract infection (CHICO): efficient cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess whether an easy-to-use multifaceted intervention for children presenting to primary care with respiratory tract infections would reduce antibiotic dispensing, without increasing hospital admissions for respiratory tract infection.

Design

Two arm randomised controlled trial clustered by general practice, using routine outcome data, with qualitative and economic evaluations.

Setting

English primary care practices using the EMIS electronic medical record system.

Participants

Children aged 0-9 years presenting with respiratory tract infection at 294 general practices, before and during the covid-19 pandemic.

Intervention

Elicitation of parental concerns during consultation; a clinician focused prognostic algorithm to identify children at

SUBMITTER: Blair PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10131137 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature