ArticlePopulation health management2013
Effectiveness of interventions in reducing antibiotic use for upper respiratory infections in ambulatory care practices.
Article in Population health management, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Academic Detailing Interventions and Evidence-Based Prescribing: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Ambulatory Antibiotic Stewardship through a Human Factors Engineering Approach: A Systematic Review.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFMPooled it
- One size does not fit all: evaluating an intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis.BMC health services research · 2013Trial
- Exploring Antimicrobial Stewardship Influential Interventions on Improving Antibiotic Utilization in Outpatient and Inpatient Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- "Antibiotics are for everyone, our past and our future generations, right? If antibiotics are dead, we will be in big trouble": Building on community values for public engagement on appropriate use of antibiotics in Singapore.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Using Audit and Feedback to Improve Antimicrobial Prescribing in Emergency Departments: A Multicenter Quasi-Experimental Study in the Veterans Health Administration.Open forum infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Impact of a Social Marketing Intervention on General Practitioners' Antibiotic Prescribing Practices for Acute Respiratory Tract Complaints in Malta.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Fostering Appropriate Antibiotic Use in a Complex Intervention: Mixed-Methods Process Evaluation Alongside the Cluster-Randomized Trial ARena.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Interventions for prudent antibiotic use in primary healthcare: an econometric analysis.BMC health services research · 2020Observational
- The effectiveness of a simple antimicrobial stewardship intervention in general practice in Australia: a pilot study.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Improved Antibiotic Prescribing within a Veterans Affairs Primary Care System through a Multifaceted Intervention Centered on Peer Comparison of Overall Antibiotic Prescribing Rates.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2019Article
- Advances in optimizing the prescription of antibiotics in outpatient settings.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018Review
- Antibiotic use for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTI) in primary care; what factors affect prescribing and why is it important? A narrative review.Irish journal of medical science · 2018Review
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Abstract
The objective was to evaluate the effect of separate interventions on antimicrobial prescribing for uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infections. The authors conducted a quasi-experimental pre-post study with concurrent control groups for each intervention. Academic detailing led to a significant reduction in unnecessary antibiotic prescribing. However, there was no significant change in antibiotic prescribing in response to educational mailings to providers or to provider involvement in patient mailings. Organizations that seek to reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics should use proven approaches, even when they are more expensive.
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