Let's Talk About Antibiotics: a randomised trial of two interventions to reduce antibiotic misuse.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) receive ≈11.4 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions annually. A noted contributor is inadequate parent-clinician communication, however, efforts to reduce overprescribing have only indirectly targeted communication or been impractical.

Objectives

Compare two feasible (higher vs lower intensity) interventions for enhancing parent-clinician communication on the rate of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

Design

Multisite, parallel group, cluster randomised comparative effectiveness trial. Data collected between March 2017 and March 2019.

Setting

Academic and private practice outpatient clinics.

Participants

Clinicians (n=41, 85% of eligible approached) and 1599 parent-child dyads

SUBMITTER: Goggin K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9680140 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature