Reducing antibiotic prescribing rates in young children in an outpatient primary care setting—a systemwide quality improvement initiative
This low-cost intervention has the potential to reduce primary care antibiotic prescribing in children and we did not detect an increase in GP attendance rates after this intervention in our study. It could easily be rolled out nationwide.
Authors
- Donna M Lecky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1223-9356)
- Chris Penfold (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8654-353X)
- Liz Corteville (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6535-6651)
- Sanjay Patel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6329-0496)
Institutions
- Southampton Children's Hospital (GB)
- Public Health Agency (GB)
- Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group (GB)
- Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance
- Published
- 2025-03-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlaf041
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.26