Observational studyBMC family practice2015
Point-of-care testing with CRP in primary care: a registry-based observational study from Norway.
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- Effects of primary care C-reactive protein point-of-care testing on antibiotic prescribing by general practice staff: pragmatic randomised controlled trial, England, 2016 and 2017.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2020Trial
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- Out-of-hours C-reactive protein point-of-care testing and its association with long-term healthcare-seeking.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Article
- From adoption to implementation: paediatricians' experiences with C-reactive protein point-of-care testing in the community setting.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2026Article
- Diagnostic equipment and point-of-care tests in Norwegian emergency primary healthcare clinics: a cross-sectional study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2025Article
- Point-of-care testing and antibiotics prescribing in out-of-hours general practice: a register-based study in Denmark.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Development over time in point-of-care test use in Danish daytime and out-of-hours general practice: a register-based study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2023Article
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- Antibiotics for gastroenteritis in general practice and out-of-hour services in Norway 2006-15.Family practice · 2022Article
- Clinician perspectives on having point of care tests made available to them during out of hours home visiting.BMC family practice · 2021Article
- Consultations for gastroenteritis in general practice and out-of-hours services in Norway 2006-15.Family practice · 2019Article
- Circulating high sensitivity C reactive protein concentrations and risk of lung cancer: nested case-control study within Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2019Article
- What's the uptake? Pragmatic RCTs may be used to estimate uptake, and thereby population impact of interventions, but better reporting of trial recruitment processes is needed.BMC medical research methodology · 2017Article
- Out-of-hours antibiotic prescription after screening with C reactive protein: a randomised controlled study.BMJ open · 2016Observational
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Abstract
backgroundNorwegian primary health care is maintained on the regular general practitioners (RGPs), GP's contracted to the municipalities in a list patient system, working at daytime and at out-of-hours services (OOH services). Respiratory disease is most prevalent during OOH services, and in more than 50 % of the consultations, a CRP test is performed. Children in particular have a high consultation rate, and the CRP test is frequently conducted, but the contributing factors behind its frequent use are not known. This study compares the RGPs rate of CRP use at daytime and OOH in consultations with children and how this rate is influenced by characteristics of the RGPs.
methodsA cross-sectional register study was conducted based on all (N = 2,552,600) electronic compensation claims from consultations with children ≤ 5 year during the period 2009-2011 from primary health care. Consultation rates and CRP use were estimated and analysed using descriptive methods. Being among the 20% of RGPs with the highest rate of CRP use at daytime or OOH was an outcome measure in regression analyses using RGP-, and RGP list characteristics as explanatory variables.
resultsOne third of all RGPs work regularly in OOH services, and they use CRP 1.42 times more frequently in consultations with children in OOH services than in daytime services even when the distribution of diagnosis according to ICPC-2 chapters is similar. Not being approved specialist, have a large number at their patient-lists but relatively few children on their list and a large number of consultations with children were significantly associated with frequent use of CRP in daytime services. The predictors for frequent CRP use in OOH services were being a young doctor, having many consultations with children during OOH and a frequent use of CRP in daytime services.
conclusionsThe increase in the frequency of CRP test use from daytime to OOH occurs in general for RGPs and for all most used diagnoses. The RGPs who use the CRP test most frequently in their daytime practice have the highest rate of CRP in OOH services.
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