Multifaceted intervention to Reduce Antimicrobial Prescribing in Care Homes: a process evaluation of a UK-based non-randomised feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore the facilitators and obstacles to the development and implementation of the Reduce Antimicrobial Prescribing in Care Homes intervention.

Design

We used a mixed-methods approach. We conducted focus groups with care home staff and relatives of residents, and interviews with general practitioners (GPs) and home managers, completed observational visits and collected demographic data, training attendance records and data on the use of a decision-making algorithm. We used normalisation process theory to inform topic guides and interpretation of the data.

Setting

Six care homes, three in Northern Ireland and three in the West Midlands, England.

Intervention

A decision-making algorithm for urinary tract, respiratory tract and skin and soft-tissue

SUBMITTER: Potter R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887004 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature