Contacting GPs to reduce unnecessary prescriptions of antibiotics: a randomised controlled trial

Public Health England (UK)0 个研究点目标入组 13,300 人开始时间: 2014年9月26日最近更新: 2016年10月17日

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•1. GP practices in England who issued prescriptions in May 2014, according to HSCIC prescribing data (the latest data available at the time of design)
•2. GP practices whose antibiotic prescribing rate is in the top 20% for their NHS Local Area, controlling for relevant patient characteristics. More specifically, we will apply the Health and Social Care Information Centre's STARPU weightings for oral antibiotics (BNF 5.1 subset). These consist of age and gender weightings.

•1. GP practices are excluded if their current level of prescription (doses per 1000 head of population) is classed as an outlier. The cut-off for outliers is made at the 95th percentile of the distribution, since figures above this level were considered to be the result of measurement error. This judgment was made based on medical advice.
•2. We exclude practices that have been in operation for less than a year in September 2014, since we require data for September 2013 in order to apply the difference-in-differences analysis.

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Public Health England (UK)