Effects of a multimodal intervention in primary care to reduce second line antibiotic prescriptions for urinary tract infections in women: parallel, cluster randomised, controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate whether a multimodal intervention in general practice reduces the proportion of second line antibiotic prescriptions and the overall proportion of antibiotic prescriptions for uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women.

Design

Parallel, cluster randomised, controlled trial.

Setting

General practices in five regions in Germany. Data were collected between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022.

Participants

General practitioners from 128 randomly assigned practices.

Interventions

Multimodal intervention consisting of guideline recommendations for general practitioners and patients, provision of regional data for antibiotic resistance, and quarterly feedback, which included individual first line and second line proportions of antibiotic

SUBMITTER: Schmiemann G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10620739 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature