A Multifaceted Intervention to Improve Antimicrobial Prescribing for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in a Small Rural Community

Abstract

A multifaceted intervention involving the repetitive use of printed algorithms resulted in modest improvements in antibiotic prescribing for outpatient URTIs, although one data source did not corroborate this. However, macrolide prescribing decreased sharply, irrespective of the source of data.