A Privacy-Preserving Audit and Feedback System for the Antibiotic Prescribing of General Practitioners: Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antibiotic resistance is a worldwide public health problem that is accelerated by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics. Studies have shown that audits and feedback enable clinicians to compare their personal clinical performance with that of their peers and are effective in reducing the inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics. However, privacy concerns make audits and feedback hard to implement in clinical settings. To solve this problem, we developed a privacy-preserving audit and feedback (A&F) system.

Objective

This study aims to evaluate a privacy-preserving A&F system in clinical settings.

Methods

A privacy-preserving A&F system was deployed at three primary care practices in Norway to generate feedback for 20 general practitioners (GPs) on their pre

SUBMITTER: Yigzaw KY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9330202 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature