Table 2.

Outcome measures in study of the effect of a pedagogic intervention towards groups of Norwegian GPs, concerning antibiotic prescription for respiratory tract infections (RTIs)

Baseline data collected during one year:
Proportion of consultations with antibiotic prescription of all consultations with respiratory tract diagnoses
Proportion of consultations with antibiotic prescription of consultations with specified RTIs
Proportion of consultations with narrow-spectrum antibiotic prescription of all antibiotic prescription
Predictors for high and low antibiotic prescription
Change as measured one year after pedagogic intervention:
Change in total antibiotic prescription for respiratory tract diagnoses
Change in proportion of consultations with antibiotic prescription of all consultations with respiratory tract diagnoses
Change in proportion of consultations with antibiotic prescription of consultations specified RTIs
Change in proportion of consultations with narrow-spectrum antibiotic prescription of all antibiotic prescription
Predictors for change in total antibiotic prescription and proportion narrow-spectrum antibiotics
Use of delayed prescriptions:
Proportion of use of delayed prescriptions by all antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory tract diagnoses
Proportion of use of delayed prescriptions by antibiotic prescriptions for specified respiratory tract diagnoses
Predictors for high/low use of delayed prescriptions
Comparisons between antibiotic prescriptions and data from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD)
Proportion and delay of dispensed antibiotic prescriptions compared to prescribed antibiotics
Refund of antibiotics:
Proportion of antibiotics prescribed with full refund