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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice Regarding Antibiotic Prescription by Medical Interns: A Qualitative Study in Spain

Antibiotic resistance is an issue of growing importance in the public health sphere. Medical interns are of great relevance when it comes to the source of this problem. This study therefore sought to ascertain which factors influence the management of antibiotic therapy by this population, in order...

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Autores principales: Molina-Romera, Germán, Vazquez-Cancela, Olalla, Vazquez-Lago, Juan Manuel, Montes-Villalba, Rodrigo Alonso, Roque, Fátima, Herdeiro, Maria Teresa, Figueiras, Adolfo
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10044181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36978321
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12030457
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author Molina-Romera, Germán
Vazquez-Cancela, Olalla
Vazquez-Lago, Juan Manuel
Montes-Villalba, Rodrigo Alonso
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Herdeiro, Maria Teresa
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Vazquez-Cancela, Olalla
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description Antibiotic resistance is an issue of growing importance in the public health sphere. Medical interns are of great relevance when it comes to the source of this problem. This study therefore sought to ascertain which factors influence the management of antibiotic therapy by this population, in order to pinpoint the possible causes of misprescribing habits. We conducted a qualitative study based on focus group techniques, with groups consisting of medical interns from the Santiago de Compostela Clinical University Teaching Hospital. Our study identified factors which the participants considered to be determinants of antibiotic use and their relationship with the appearance of resistance. The single most repeated factor was the influence of the attending physician’s judgement; other factors included a high healthcare burden or prescribing inertia. This stage is an opportunity to correct misprescribing habits, by implementing educational interventions aimed at modifying the identified factors.
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spelling pubmed-100441812023-03-29 Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice Regarding Antibiotic Prescription by Medical Interns: A Qualitative Study in Spain Molina-Romera, Germán Vazquez-Cancela, Olalla Vazquez-Lago, Juan Manuel Montes-Villalba, Rodrigo Alonso Roque, Fátima Herdeiro, Maria Teresa Figueiras, Adolfo Antibiotics (Basel) Article Antibiotic resistance is an issue of growing importance in the public health sphere. Medical interns are of great relevance when it comes to the source of this problem. This study therefore sought to ascertain which factors influence the management of antibiotic therapy by this population, in order to pinpoint the possible causes of misprescribing habits. We conducted a qualitative study based on focus group techniques, with groups consisting of medical interns from the Santiago de Compostela Clinical University Teaching Hospital. Our study identified factors which the participants considered to be determinants of antibiotic use and their relationship with the appearance of resistance. The single most repeated factor was the influence of the attending physician’s judgement; other factors included a high healthcare burden or prescribing inertia. This stage is an opportunity to correct misprescribing habits, by implementing educational interventions aimed at modifying the identified factors. MDPI 2023-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10044181/ /pubmed/36978321 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12030457 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice Regarding Antibiotic Prescription by Medical Interns: A Qualitative Study in Spain
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