Educational interventions in physicians to improve antibiotic use

Study type

• Study topic:
  Human medicinal product
• Study type:
  Clinical trial
• If ‘other’, further details on the scope of the study:
  Educational Intervention

Clinical trials

• Clinical trial regulatory scope:
  Clinical trial not part of marketing authorisation application or subject to marketing authorisation approval
• Clinical trial randomisation:
  Randomised clinical trial
• Clinical trial types:
  Cluster randomised trial

  Single-arm trial

Population studied

• Short description of the study population:
  All general practitioners working during the period of the study in the National System of Health (SNS).
• Age groups:
  Preterm newborn infants (0 – 27 days)

  Term newborn infants (0 – 27 days)

  Infants and toddlers (28 days – 23 months)

  Children (2 to < 12 years)

  Adolescents (12 to < 18 years)

  Adults (18 to < 46 years)

  Adults (46 to < 65 years)

  Adults (65 to < 75 years)

  Adults (75 to < 85 years)

  Adults (85 years and over)
• Estimated number of subjects:
  0

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  Improve antibiotic prescription.
• Outcomes:
  Overall antibiotics prescription, 12 quality indicators of antibiotics consumption published by ESAC
• Data analysis plan:
  It was used monthly prescription data for physician from National Health System-Centre Region of Portugal and aggregated by active substance in accordance with the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC).