[Selection of indicators for continuous monitoring of the impact of programs optimizing antimicrobial use in Primary Care].

Objectives: To determine core indicators for monitoring quality prescribing in Primary Care based on the evidence, and to assess the feasibility of these indicators for monitoring the use of antibiotics.

Methods: A literature review was carried out on quality indicators for antimicrobial prescribing through an electronic search limited to the period 2001-2012. It was completed with an "ad hoc" search on the websites of public national and international health services.

[Level of knowledge of antibiotics prescribed in outpatients].

Introduction: The lack of patient knowledge about their medication is considered to be one of the main reasons for an inappropriate use.

Objective: This study the level of knowledge in patients about their prescribed antibiotic, and describes some of the factors related to this.

Design: A cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study with an analytical component.

Improving the appropriateness of antimicrobial use in primary care after implementation of a local antimicrobial guide in both levels of care.

Objective: This study aims to assess the effectiveness of multiple interventions carried out during the implementation of a guide, on the improvement of the appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing in primary care.

Design: This is a cross-sectional before/after study carried out in Aljarafe Health Care Area (Andalusia, Spain), with a population of 368,728 inhabitants assisted in 37 health centers.

Subjects: Subjects include patients with antibiotic prescriptions during 2009 (pre-intervention phase) or 2012 (postintervention phase) selected by simple random sampling (confidence level, 95%; accuracy, 5%), with infections registered in the electronic clinical history.

The effect of an educational intervention to improve patient antibiotic adherence during dispensing in a community pharmacy.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of an educational intervention on antibiotic adherence and patient-reported resolution of symptoms.

Design: A controlled experimental study with systematic assignment to groups.

Setting: A pharmacy in Murcia.

[Appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in a primary care area: a cross-sectional study].

Objective: To assess the profile of patients receiving antibiotics and the appropriateness of these prescriptions for the clinical conditions.

Design: Cross-sectional study of prescription-indication.

Setting: A primary health care area in Andalusia.

[Pharmacotherapy negative outcomes resulting in Primary Care Emergency visits].

Objective: Our aim was to estimate the prevalence of Pharmacotherapy negative outcomes in Primary Care Emergency visits in a rural environment, and to determine their preventability and severity.

Design: Descriptive study with an analytical component. SITE: Primary Care Emergency Service (SUAP), Mula.