Long-term outcomes of an educational intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing for childhood upper respiratory tract infections in rural China: Follow-up of a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Long-term outcomes of an educational intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing for childhood upper respiratory tract infections in rural China: Follow-up of a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND:Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing causes widespread serious health problems. To reduce prescribing of antibiotics in Chinese primary care to children with upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs), we developed an intervention comprising clinical guidelines, monthly prescribing review...

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Main Authors: Xiaolin Wei, Zhitong Zhang, Joseph P Hicks, John D Walley, Rebecca King, James N Newell, Jia Yin, Jun Zeng, Yan Guo, Mei Lin, Ross E G Upshur, Qiang Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-02-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002733

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002733

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