title: Drug-specific quality indicators assessing outpatient antibiotic use among French general practitioners.
abstract: Quality indicators assessing the use of antibiotics among general practitioners (GPs) would be useful to target antibiotic stewardship interventions. We adapted to an individual GP level a set of 12 drug-specific quality indicators of outpatient antibiotic use in Europe developed by the European surveillance of antimicrobial consumption project. We performed a cross-sectional study analysing reimbursement data on outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in adults in south-eastern France in 2009. Substantial heterogeneity in antibiotic prescribing among French GPs was observed, and opportunity to improve antibiotic prescribing can be identified.
authors: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Service d'Infectiologie, Nice, France.
authors: Céline
authors: C
authors: Pulcini
authors: Caroline
authors: C
authors: Lions
authors: Bruno
authors: B
authors: Ventelou
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Verger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004363:Drug Utilization / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D058005:General Practitioners; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents