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A multi-faceted intervention to improve management of antibiotics for CHIldren presenting to primary care with acute COugh and respiratory tract infection (CHICO): an efficient cluster randomised controlled trial

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Objectives: Unnecessary use of antibiotics needlessly contributes to antimicrobial resistance. Our aim was to assess whether an easy-to-use multifaceted intervention for children presenting to primary care with respiratory tract infections (RTI) would reduce antibiotic dispensing, without increasing hospital admissions for RTI.

Design: A two-arm randomised controlled trial clustered by GP practice, using routine outcome data, with qualitative an...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1136/bmj-2022-072488

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-5285-409X


Publisher:
BMJ Publishing Group
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Volume:
381
Article number:
e072488
Publication date:
2023-03-15
Acceptance date:
2023-03-09
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0959-535X
ISSN:
1759-2151


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English
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Pubs id:
1331995
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pubs:1331995
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2023-04-21
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