Journal article
General practitioner and nurse prescriber experiences of prescribing antibiotics for respiratory tract infections in UK primary care out of hours services (The UNITE Study)
- Abstract:
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Aims
To explore General Practitioners (GP) and Nurse Prescribers (NP) views on and experiences of prescribing antibiotics for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in primary care out of hours (OOH) services.
Background
Interventions are needed to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for RTIs. Although community antibiotic prescribing appears to be decreasing in the UK, figures for OOH prescribing have substantially increased. Understanding factors influencing ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
National Institute of Health Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Journal website
- Volume:
- 73
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 795–803
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-20
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1460-2091
- ISSN:
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0305-7453
Item Description
- Pubs id:
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pubs:747092
- UUID:
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uuid:6b65e155-3c50-4600-861e-923313c815b8
- Local pid:
- pubs:747092
- Source identifiers:
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747092
- Deposit date:
- 2017-11-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Tonkin-Crine et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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