General Practitioners’ Attitudes toward Municipal Initiatives to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing—A Mixed-Methods Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Part 1—E-Mail Interviews
2.1.1. Antibiotic Prescribing
2.1.2. Reduction
2.1.3. Quality Improvement
2.2. Part 2—Online-Form Answers
2.2.1. Own Potential for Improvement
2.2.2. The Municipal Chief Medical Officer’s Role
3. Discussion
3.1. Main Findings
3.2. Strengths and Limitations
3.3. Results and Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Part 1—E-Mail Interviews
4.1.1. Interview Guide
4.1.2. Selection and Recruitment
4.1.3. Analysis
4.2. Part 2—Online-Form Answers
4.2.1. Online Form
- What do you consider to be your potential for improvement?
- What is your opinion on the Municipal Chief Medical Officer’s role in this course? (11-points rating scale, from 0 (very problematic) to 10 (not problematic at all))
- Provide comments on the Municipal Chief Medical Officer’s role.
4.2.2. Selection, Recruitment, and Analysis
4.3. Ethics (Part 1 and 2)
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Sunde, M.; Nygaard, M.M.; Høye, S. General Practitioners’ Attitudes toward Municipal Initiatives to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing—A Mixed-Methods Study. Antibiotics 2019, 8, 120. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8030120
Sunde M, Nygaard MM, Høye S. General Practitioners’ Attitudes toward Municipal Initiatives to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing—A Mixed-Methods Study. Antibiotics. 2019; 8(3):120. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8030120
Chicago/Turabian StyleSunde, Marthe, Marthe Marie Nygaard, and Sigurd Høye. 2019. "General Practitioners’ Attitudes toward Municipal Initiatives to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing—A Mixed-Methods Study" Antibiotics 8, no. 3: 120. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics8030120