An Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescriptions of Antibiotics for Respiratory Infections in General Practice

Verified by: University of Oslo, December 2005
First Received: January 3, 2006 | Last Updated: April 26, 2010 | Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2 | Start Date: January 2006
Overall Status: Completed | Estimated Enrollment: 118621
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This study will explore the possible effect of a tailored educational intervention towards general practitioners, in order to improve antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory infections...

Brief Summary

Official Title: “Can Antibiotic Prescriptions in Respiratory Tract Infections be Improved? A Cluster Randomized Educational Intervention in General Practice”

This study will explore the possible effect of a tailored educational intervention towards general practitioners, in order to improve antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory infections.

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design: Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Study Primary Completion Date: March 2007

Intervention(s) in this Clinical Trial

  • Behavioral: Educational intervention
    • Educational outreach visits to the CME-groups, work-shops, audit and feedback
  • Behavioral: Educational intervention program
    • The 433 recruited GPs had a total of 1336 717 office consultations of which 171 679 (12.8%) were RTIs encounters for 118 621 different patients. The GPs participated in peer continuing medical education (CME) groups in southern Norway. A multifaceted intervention was tailored, where key components were educational outreach visits to the CME-groups, work-shops, audit and feedback. Prescription Peer Academic Detailers conducted the educational outreach visits. During these visits, evidence-based recommendations of antibiotic prescriptions for RTIs were presented and software handed out for installation in participants PCs, enabling collection of prescription data. These data was linked to corresponding data from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD). Main outcomes are baseline proportion of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for RTIs and change in prescription patterns compared to baseline one year after the initiation of the tailored pedagogic intervention.

Outcome Measures for this Clinical Trial

Primary Measures

  • Change in antibiotic prescription patterns for respiratory infections
    • Time Frame: 1 year
      Safety Issue?: No

Criteria for Participation in this Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria:

  • General practitioner
  • Specialist in general practice

Gender Eligibility for this Clinical Trial: Both

Minimum Age for this Clinical Trial: N/A

Maximum Age for this Clinical Trial: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted for this Clinical Trial?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Clinical Trial Investigator Information

Lead Investigator: University of Oslo Other

Overall Clinical Trial Officials and Contacts

Svein Gjelstad, MD Principal Investigator University of Oslo  

Additional Information

Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on February 12, 2012

Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00272155

Study ID Number: 850657

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00272155

Health Authority: Norway: Norwegian Social Science Data Services

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