Variations in antibiotic prescribing among village doctors in a rural region of Shandong province, China: a cross-sectional analysis of prescriptions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess variation in antibiotic prescribing practices among village doctors in a rural region of Shandong province, China.

Design, setting and participants

Almost all outpatient encounters at village clinics result in a prescription being issued. Prescriptions were collected over a 2.5-year period from 8 primary care village clinics staffed by 24 doctors located around a town in rural Shandong province. A target of 60 prescriptions per clinic per month was sampled from an average total of around 300. Prescriptions were analysed at both aggregate and individual-prescriber levels, with a focus on diagnoses of likely viral acute upper respiratory tract infections (AURIs), defined as International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes J00 and J06.9.

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SUBMITTER: Dyar OJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7265041 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature