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Effects of prescription restrictive interventions on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings: a controlled interrupted time series study in China

BACKGROUND: The overuse of antibiotics has been identified as a major challenge in regard to the rational prescription of medicines in low and middle income countries. Extensive studies on the effectiveness of persuasive interventions, such as guidelines have been undertaken. There is a dearth of re...

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Autores principales: Tang, Yuqing, Liu, Chaojie, Zhang, Zinan, Zhang, Xinping
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29371833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12962-018-0086-y
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author Tang, Yuqing
Liu, Chaojie
Zhang, Zinan
Zhang, Xinping
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Liu, Chaojie
Zhang, Zinan
Zhang, Xinping
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description BACKGROUND: The overuse of antibiotics has been identified as a major challenge in regard to the rational prescription of medicines in low and middle income countries. Extensive studies on the effectiveness of persuasive interventions, such as guidelines have been undertaken. There is a dearth of research pertaining to the effects of restrictive interventions. This study aimed to evaluate the impacts of prescription restrictions in relation to types and administration routes of antibiotics on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings in China. METHODS: Data were drawn from the monthly procurement records of medicines for primary care institutions in Hubei province over a 31-month period from May 2011 to November 2013. We analyzed the monthly procurement volume and costs of antibiotics. Interrupted time series analyses with a difference-in-difference approach were performed to evaluate the effect of the restrictive intervention (started in August 2012) on antibiotic procurement in comparison with those for cardiovascular conditions. Sensitivity tests were performed by replacing outliers using a simple linear interpolation technique. RESULTS: Over the entire study period, antibiotics accounted for 33.65% of the total costs of medicines procured for primary care institutions: mostly non-restricted antibiotics (86.03%) and antibiotics administered through parenteral routes (79.59%). On average, 17.14 million defined daily doses (DDDs) of antibiotics were procured per month, with the majority (93.09%) for non-restricted antibiotics and over half (52.38%) for parenteral administered antibiotics. The restrictive intervention was associated with a decline in the secular trend of costs for non-restricted oral antibiotics (− 0.36 million Yuan per month, p = 0.029), and for parenteral administered restricted antibiotics (− 0.28 million Yuan per month, p = 0.019), as well as a decline in the secular trend of procurement volume for parenteral administered non-restricted antibiotics (− 0.038 million DDDs per month, p = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Restrictive interventions are effective in reducing the procurement of antibiotics. However, the effect size is relatively small and antibiotic consumptions remain high, especially parenteral administered antibiotics.
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spelling pubmed-57711402018-01-25 Effects of prescription restrictive interventions on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings: a controlled interrupted time series study in China Tang, Yuqing Liu, Chaojie Zhang, Zinan Zhang, Xinping Cost Eff Resour Alloc Research BACKGROUND: The overuse of antibiotics has been identified as a major challenge in regard to the rational prescription of medicines in low and middle income countries. Extensive studies on the effectiveness of persuasive interventions, such as guidelines have been undertaken. There is a dearth of research pertaining to the effects of restrictive interventions. This study aimed to evaluate the impacts of prescription restrictions in relation to types and administration routes of antibiotics on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings in China. METHODS: Data were drawn from the monthly procurement records of medicines for primary care institutions in Hubei province over a 31-month period from May 2011 to November 2013. We analyzed the monthly procurement volume and costs of antibiotics. Interrupted time series analyses with a difference-in-difference approach were performed to evaluate the effect of the restrictive intervention (started in August 2012) on antibiotic procurement in comparison with those for cardiovascular conditions. Sensitivity tests were performed by replacing outliers using a simple linear interpolation technique. RESULTS: Over the entire study period, antibiotics accounted for 33.65% of the total costs of medicines procured for primary care institutions: mostly non-restricted antibiotics (86.03%) and antibiotics administered through parenteral routes (79.59%). On average, 17.14 million defined daily doses (DDDs) of antibiotics were procured per month, with the majority (93.09%) for non-restricted antibiotics and over half (52.38%) for parenteral administered antibiotics. The restrictive intervention was associated with a decline in the secular trend of costs for non-restricted oral antibiotics (− 0.36 million Yuan per month, p = 0.029), and for parenteral administered restricted antibiotics (− 0.28 million Yuan per month, p = 0.019), as well as a decline in the secular trend of procurement volume for parenteral administered non-restricted antibiotics (− 0.038 million DDDs per month, p = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Restrictive interventions are effective in reducing the procurement of antibiotics. However, the effect size is relatively small and antibiotic consumptions remain high, especially parenteral administered antibiotics. BioMed Central 2018-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5771140/ /pubmed/29371833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12962-018-0086-y Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Zhang, Xinping
Effects of prescription restrictive interventions on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings: a controlled interrupted time series study in China
title Effects of prescription restrictive interventions on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings: a controlled interrupted time series study in China
title_full Effects of prescription restrictive interventions on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings: a controlled interrupted time series study in China
title_fullStr Effects of prescription restrictive interventions on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings: a controlled interrupted time series study in China
title_full_unstemmed Effects of prescription restrictive interventions on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings: a controlled interrupted time series study in China
title_short Effects of prescription restrictive interventions on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings: a controlled interrupted time series study in China
title_sort effects of prescription restrictive interventions on antibiotic procurement in primary care settings: a controlled interrupted time series study in china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29371833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12962-018-0086-y
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