The evaluation of antibiotic prescribing in general practice using a health insurance company database: penicillins use

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.cmj.hr/2012/53/5/23100214.htm" target="_blank" >http://www.cmj.hr/2012/53/5/23100214.htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2012.53.505" target="_blank" >10.3325/cmj.2012.53.505</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The evaluation of antibiotic prescribing in general practice using a health insurance company database: penicillins use

Original language description

General practitioners often prescribe antibiotics for diagnoses that do not require antibiotic treatment. The regular monitoring of total antibiotic consumption doesn't reveal critical areas of antibiotic prescription. We used the database of Health Insurance Company to evaluate the antibiotic prescribing habits of general practitioner's in the age-stratified population. We target the prescribing of penicillins. The problem of DDD determination was solved using the number of prescriptions, correspondingto the number of treatment courses. With advancing age, there was a dramatic decline in overall penicillins consumption. The opposite results, penicillins were prescribed in 30 % infection cases among teenagers. The use of aminopenicillins combined withbeta-lactamase inhibitor was four times higher than the use of aminopenicilins in children younger than one year. The possible explanations of these trends are discussed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FN - Epidemiology, infection diseases and clinical immunology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Croatian Medical Journal

ISSN

0353-9504

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

HR - CROATIA

Number of pages

2

Pages from-to

505-506

UT code for WoS article

000311977100014

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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