Practitioner Education and Feedback to Decrease Ciprofloxacin Prescriptions in Patients with Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis.

Context: Current guidelines recommend a nonfluoroquinolone agent as first-line treatment of acute uncomplicated cystitis (AUC) because of concerns of antimicrobial resistance and adverse effects.

Objective: To test whether a multifaceted intervention involving education and feedback reduced primary care practitioners' ciprofloxacin prescriptions for AUC therapy.

Design: Primary care practitioners at 3 medical offices participated: 65 in the intervention group and 51 in the control group.