ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2012
Antibiotic prescription by general practitioners for urinary tract infections in outpatients.
Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03612297 (Impact of Selective Reporting of Antibiotic Susceptibility Test Results in Urinary Tract Infections in the Outpatient Setting), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Impact of Selective Reporting of Antibiotic Susceptibility Test Results in Urinary Tract Infections in the Outpatient Setting: a Protocol for a Pragmatic, Prospective Quasi-experimental Trial
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Acupuncture for Chronic Prostatitis or Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pain research & management · 2023Pooled it
- Antibiotic prescribing in inpatient and outpatient settings in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis study.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2021Pooled it
- Selective reporting of antibiotic susceptibility data improves the appropriateness of intended antibiotic prescriptions in urinary tract infections: a case-vignette randomised study.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2013Trial
- Compliance to international guidelines and rational use of antibiotics in urinary tract infections in a country without national guidance: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
- Quality of Antibiotic Prescribing for Outpatient Cystitis in Adult Females.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2024Article
- Antibiotic Stewardship Interventions for Urinary Tract Infections in Outpatient Settings: A Narrative Review.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Comments by Microbiologists for Interpreting Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Improving the Appropriateness of Antibiotic Therapy in Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections: A Randomized Double-Blind Digital Case-Vignette Controlled Superiority Trial.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Recurrent cystitis: patients' needs, expectations and contribution to developing an information leaflet - a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Relationship between the appropriateness of antibiotic treatment and clinical outcomes/medical costs of patients with community-acquired acute pyelonephritis: a multicenter prospective cohort study.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- The Five Ds of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship for Urinary Tract Infections.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2021Review
- Case-based audit and feedback around a decision aid improved antibiotic choice and duration for uncomplicated cystitis in primary care clinics.Family medicine and community health · 2021Article
- Comparative Epidemiology and Resistance Trends of Common Urinary Pathogens in a Tertiary-Care Hospital: A 10-Year Surveillance Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
- Resistance Trends and Epidemiology ofMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
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- Treatment of Cystitis by Hungarian General Practitioners: A Prospective Observational Study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Article
- General Practitioner trainers prescribe fewer antibiotics in primary care: Evidence from France.PloS one · 2018Observational
- Low Concordance With Guidelines for Treatment of Acute Cystitis in Primary Care.Open forum infectious diseases · 2015Article
- Review
- Strategies to minimize antibiotic resistance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Review
- Attitudes of community pharmacists to antibiotic dispensing and microbial resistance: a qualitative study in Portugal.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2013Article
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Abstract
In July 2008, in France, guidelines for antibiotic prescriptions for urinary tract infections (UTIs) were amended. As general practitioners (GPs) treat numerous UTIs, we wanted to evaluate whether they followed these guidelines. In order to do this, we performed a prospective study. The point of call was urinalyses. Using this selection method together with criteria diagnostic for urinalysis, we confirmed that patients presented a UTI. Each GP was contacted. Prescriptions were analysed and compared to the 2008 French guidelines for UTIs. Our study included 185 urinalyses. UTIs diagnosed by GPs were as follows: acute cystitis: 72.4 %, prostatitis: 13.5 %, nephritis: 8.7 % and asymptomatic bacteriuria: 5.4 %. The principal antibiotics used were: quinolone (59.5 %), furan (17.8 %) and cotrimoxazole (6.5 %). Only 20 % of the prescriptions were compliant with the guidelines. The correct antibiotic but not the dose or the duration of prescription was selected in 8.1 % of the prescriptions. For cystitis, inappropriate prescription was associated with an extra cost of 694 <euro>, namely, 7.4 <euro> per treatment. GP prescriptions for UTIs do not follow the guidelines. Even if GPs assert that they are aware of the emergence of resistant strains, it seems that they do not take into account the objective of quinolone restriction, which was one of the backbones of these guidelines.
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