Publications by authors named "Julie H C Wu"
Background: There is growing evidence supporting the efficacy of shorter courses of antibiotic therapy for common infections. However, the risks of prolonged antibiotic duration are underappreciated.
Objectives: To estimate the incremental daily risk of antibiotic-associated harms.
Importance: Antibiotic overuse contributes to adverse drug effects, increased costs, and antimicrobial resistance.
Objective: To evaluate peer-comparison audit and feedback to high-prescribing primary care physicians (PCPs) and assess the effect of targeted messaging on avoiding unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions and avoiding long-duration prescribing.
Design, Setting, And Participants: In this 3-arm randomized clinical trial, administrative data collected from IQVIA's Xponent database were used to recruit the highest quartile of antibiotic-prescribing PCPs (n = 3500) in Ontario, Canada.
Background: Unnecessary antibiotic use in the community in Canada is not well defined. Our objective was to quantify unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in a Canadian primary care setting.
Methods: We performed a descriptive analysis in Ontario from April 2011 to March 2016 using the Electronic Medical Records Primary Care database linked to other health administrative data sets at ICES.
Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
January 2014
Background: Decision aids are intended to help people participate in decisions that involve weighing the benefits and harms of treatment options often with scientific uncertainty.
Objectives: To assess the effects of decision aids for people facing treatment or screening decisions.
Search Methods: For this update, we searched from 2009 to June 2012 in MEDLINE; CENTRAL; EMBASE; PsycINFO; and grey literature.