Outpatient antibiotic prescriptions from 1992 to 2001 inThe Netherlands

Abstract

The international trend of a decline in the use of narrow-spectrum and older penicillins and prescribing more broad-spectrum and new chemotherapeutics was shown to exist in a low prescribing country, The Netherlands. Therefore, inappropriate antibiotic prescribing should remain prominent on the research agenda in intervention studies in order to improve the appropriate selection of antibiotic class and to reduce the prescription of antibiotics.