Understanding variation in primary medical care: a nine-country qualitative study of clinicians' accounts of the non-clinical factors that shape antibiotic prescribing decisions for lower respiratory tract infection

OBJECTIVES: There is a wide variation between European countries in antibiotic prescribing for patients in primary care with lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) that is not explained by case mix and clinical factors alone. Variation in antibiotic prescribing that is not warranted by difference...

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Main Authors: Brookes-Howell, L, Hood, K, Cooper, L, Little, P, Verheij, T, Coenen, S, Godycki-Cwirko, M, Melbye, H, Borras-Santos, A, Worby, P, Jakobsen, K, Goossens, H, Butler, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2012