Long-term effect of a practice-based intervention (HAPPY AUDIT) aimed at reducing antibiotic prescribing in patients with respiratory tract infections.

Objectives: Few studies have evaluated the long-term effects of educational interventions on antibiotic prescription and the results are controversial. This study was aimed at assessing the effect of a multifaceted practice-based intervention carried out 6 years earlier on current antibiotic prescription for respiratory tract infections (RTIs).

Methods: The 210 general practitioners (GPs) who completed the first two registrations in 2008 and 2009 were invited to participate in a third registration.

Effectiveness of two types of intervention on antibiotic prescribing in respiratory tract infections in Primary Care in Spain. Happy Audit Study.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of two types of intervention in reducing antibiotic prescribing in respiratory tract infections (RTI).

Design: Before-after audit-based study.

Setting: Primary Care centres in Spain.

[Physicians with access to point-of-care tests significantly reduce the antibiotic prescription for common cold].

Objective: This study was aimed at evaluating the effect of two levels of intervention on the antibiotic prescribing in patients with common cold.

Methods: Before and after audit-based study carried out in primary healthcare centres in Spain. General practitioners registered all the episodes of common cold during 15 working days in January and February in 2008 (preintervention).

C-reactive protein testing in patients with acute rhinosinusitis leads to a reduction in antibiotic use.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of C-reactive protein (CRP) testing on the antibiotic prescribing in patients with acute rhinosinusitis.

Methods: Audit-based study carried out in primary care centres in Spain. GPs registered episodes of rhinosinusitis during 3-week period before and after an intervention.

Effect of two interventions on reducing antibiotic prescription in pharyngitis in primary care.

Objectives: to evaluate the effect of two interventions on reducing antibiotic prescription in pharyngitis.

Methods: a prospective, non-randomized, before-after controlled study was carried out in primary care centres throughout Spain. General practitioners (GPs) registered all cases of pharyngitis during a 3 week period before and after two types of intervention in 2008 and 2009, respectively.

[Antibiotic prescribing in respiratory tract infections and predictive factors for their use].

Objective: Happy Audit project is a European-funded survey aimed at reducing antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections (RTI). The aim of this study is to investigate the antibiotic treatment administered for these RTIs in Spain and to find out which criteria are associated with its use.

Design: Cross-sectional study carried out in January and February 2008.