Yue Chang1, Zhezhe Cui2, Xun He1, Xunrong Zhou3, Hanni Zhou1, Xingying Fan1, Wenju Wang4, Guanghong Yang4. 1. School of Medicine and Health Management, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China. 2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Major Infectious Disease Prevention and Control and Biosafety Emergency Response, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanning, China. 3. The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guizhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, China. 4. School of Public Health, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The global health system is improperly using antibiotics, particularly in the treatment of respiratory diseases. We aimed to examine the effectiveness of implementing a unifaceted and multifaceted intervention for unreasonable antibiotic prescriptions. METHODS: Relevant literature published in the databases of Pubmed, Embase, Science Direct, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Wanfang was searched. Data were independently filtered and extracted by 2 reviewers based on a pre-designed inclusion and exclusion criteria. The Cochrane collaborative bias risk tool was used to evaluate the quality of the included randomized controlled trials studies. RESULTS: A total of 1390 studies were obtained of which 23 studies the outcome variables were antibiotic prescription rates with the number of prescriptions and intervention details were included in the systematic review. Twenty-two of the studies involved educational interventions for doctors, including: online training using email, web pages and webinar, antibiotic guidelines for information dissemination measures by email, postal or telephone reminder, training doctors in communication skills, short-term interactive educational seminars, and short-term field training sessions. Seventeen studies of interventions for health care workers also included: regular or irregular assessment/audit of antibiotic prescriptions, prescription recommendations from experts and peers delivered at a meeting or online, publicly reporting on doctors' antibiotic usage to patients, hospital administrators, and health authorities, monitoring/feedback prescribing behavior to general practices by email or poster, and studies involving patients and their families (n = 8). Twenty-one randomized controlled trials were rated as having a low risk of bias while 2 randomized controlled trials were rated as having a high risk of bias. Six studies contained negative results. CONCLUSION: The combination of education, prescription audit, prescription recommendations from experts, public reporting, prescription feedback and patient or family member multifaceted interventions can effectively reduce antibiotic prescription rates in health care institutions. Moreover, adding multifaceted interventions to educational interventions can control antibiotic prescription rates and may be a more reasonable method. REGISTRATIONS: This systematic review was registered in PROSPERO, registration number: CRD42020192560.
BACKGROUND: The global health system is improperly using antibiotics, particularly in the treatment of respiratory diseases. We aimed to examine the effectiveness of implementing a unifaceted and multifaceted intervention for unreasonable antibiotic prescriptions. METHODS: Relevant literature published in the databases of Pubmed, Embase, Science Direct, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Wanfang was searched. Data were independently filtered and extracted by 2 reviewers based on a pre-designed inclusion and exclusion criteria. The Cochrane collaborative bias risk tool was used to evaluate the quality of the included randomized controlled trials studies. RESULTS: A total of 1390 studies were obtained of which 23 studies the outcome variables were antibiotic prescription rates with the number of prescriptions and intervention details were included in the systematic review. Twenty-two of the studies involved educational interventions for doctors, including: online training using email, web pages and webinar, antibiotic guidelines for information dissemination measures by email, postal or telephone reminder, training doctors in communication skills, short-term interactive educational seminars, and short-term field training sessions. Seventeen studies of interventions for health care workers also included: regular or irregular assessment/audit of antibiotic prescriptions, prescription recommendations from experts and peers delivered at a meeting or online, publicly reporting on doctors' antibiotic usage to patients, hospital administrators, and health authorities, monitoring/feedback prescribing behavior to general practices by email or poster, and studies involving patients and their families (n = 8). Twenty-one randomized controlled trials were rated as having a low risk of bias while 2 randomized controlled trials were rated as having a high risk of bias. Six studies contained negative results. CONCLUSION: The combination of education, prescription audit, prescription recommendations from experts, public reporting, prescription feedback and patient or family member multifaceted interventions can effectively reduce antibiotic prescription rates in health care institutions. Moreover, adding multifaceted interventions to educational interventions can control antibiotic prescription rates and may be a more reasonable method. REGISTRATIONS: This systematic review was registered in PROSPERO, registration number: CRD42020192560.
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