The Effectiveness of Small Group Education on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing in General Practice: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review.

Kevin F Roche, Anthony Maher, Eimear C Morrissey, Rosie Dunne, Andrew W Murphy, Babatunde Ayeni, Gerard J Molloy

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Review in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Kevin F RocheSchool of Psychology, University of Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-2037-0183

Anthony MaherSchool of Psychology, University of Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.

Eimear C MorrisseyCentre for Health Research Methodology, University of Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.

Rosie DunneLibrary, University of Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-2256-5590

Andrew W MurphyHealth Research Board Primary Care Clinical Trials Network, University of Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.

Babatunde AyeniMidlands Training Scheme, Irish College of General Practitioners, D02 DK23 Dublin, Ireland.

Gerard J MolloySchool of Psychology, University of Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.

Funding

Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland GOIPG/2022/444

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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continuing medical educationgeneral practicepractitioner prescribingsmall group learning

Identifiers

PMID42192679

DOI10.3390/antibiotics15050458

PMCPMC13203494

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