ArticleMalaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia2013
The effect of profiling report on antibiotic prescription for upper respiratory tract infection.
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- Antimicrobial Prescribing Confidence and Knowledge Regarding Drug Resistance: Perception of Medical Students in Malaysia and the Implications.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns for Patients with Pharyngitis in Malaysian Public Primary Care Clinics.The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2022Article
- Clinical Screening Tools to Diagnose Group A Streptococcal Pharyngotonsillitis in Primary Care Clinics to Improve Prescribing Habits.The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2018Review
- Antibiotic prescribing in public and private practice: a cross-sectional study in primary care clinics in Malaysia.BMC infectious diseases · 2016Article
- Antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections in the Asia-Pacific region: A brief review.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2014Review
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Abstract
introductionUpper respiratory tract infection (URTI) is a common encounter in primary care and mostly viral in origin. Despite frequent reminders to primary care providers on judicious use of antibiotics for URTI, the practice is still rampant.
methodsAs part of quality improvement initiative, an intervention was designed by distributing a profiling report on individual prescriber's performance in comparison to colleagues on usage of antibiotic for URTI. The data were generated from electronic health record in three public primary care clinics in Malaysia and emailing monthly throughout 2011 to all providers.
resultsThere were 22,328 consultations for URTI in 2010 and 22,756 in 2011 with the incidence rates of URTI among overall consultations of 15.7% and 15.9% respectively. 60 doctors and medical assistants had performed consultations during the 2 year period. Following the intervention in 2011, the prescription rate of antibiotic for URTI is significantly reduced from 33.5% in 2010 to 23.3 % in 2011. Before intervention, individual prescription rate varies from 9.7% to 88.9% and reduced to 4.3% to 50.5% after intervention.
conclusionProfiling report is a potential method of changing antibiotic prescribing habit among public primary care providers in Malaysia especially if the baseline adherence was poor and higher variation of prescribing rate.
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