Feasibility and effectiveness of a low cost campaign on antibiotic prescribing in Italy: community level, controlled, non-randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To test the hypothesis that a multifaceted, local public campaign could be feasible and influence antibiotic prescribing for outpatients.

Design

Community level, controlled, non-randomised trial.

Setting

Provinces of Modena and Parma in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, November 2011 to February 2012.

Population

1,150,000 residents of Modena and Parma (intervention group) and 3,250,000 residents in provinces in the same region but where no campaign had been implemented (control group).

Interventions

Campaign materials (mainly posters, brochures, and advertisements on local media, plus a newsletter on local antibiotic resistance targeted at doctors and pharmacists). General practitioners and paediatricians in the intervention area participated in

SUBMITTER: Formoso G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4793446 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature