Assessment of quarter billion primary care prescriptions from a nationwide antimicrobial stewardship program

Abstract We described the significance of systematic monitoring nationwide antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in primary care. All the prescriptions given by family physicians were recorded in Prescription Information System established by the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of M...

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Autores principales:	Mehmet Gönen, Mesil Aksoy, Fatma İşli, Umut Emre Gürpınar, Pınar Göbel, Hakkı Gürsöz, Önder Ergönül
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a2bc61bbc529487aa00e738def6d8a172021-12-02T18:31:29ZAssessment of quarter billion primary care prescriptions from a nationwide antimicrobial stewardship program10.1038/s41598-021-94308-z2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/a2bc61bbc529487aa00e738def6d8a172021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94308-zhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract We described the significance of systematic monitoring nationwide antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in primary care. All the prescriptions given by family physicians were recorded in Prescription Information System established by the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Ministry of Health. We calculated, for each prescription, “antibiotics amount” as number of boxes times number of items per box for medicines that belong to antiinfectives for systemic use (i.e., J01 block in the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System). We compared the antibiotics amount before (2015) and after (2016) the extensive training programs for the family physicians. We included 266,389,209 prescriptions from state-operated family healthcare units (FHUs) between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2016. These prescriptions were given by 26,313 individual family physicians in 22,518 FHUs for 50,713,181 individual patients. At least one antimicrobial was given in 37,024,232 (28.31%) prescriptions in 2015 and 36,154,684 (26.66%) prescriptions in 2016. The most common diagnosis was “acute upper respiratory infections (AURI)” (i.e., J00-J06 block in the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) with 28.05%. The average antibiotics amount over prescriptions with AURI decreased in 79 out of 81 provinces, and overall rate of decrease in average antibiotics amount was 8.33%, where 28 and 53 provinces experienced decreases (range is between 28.63% and −3.05%) above and below this value, respectively. In the most successful province, the highest decrease in average amount of “other beta-lactam antibacterials” per prescription for AURI was 49.63% in January. Computational analyses on a big data set collected from a nationwide healthcare system brought a significant contribution in improving ASPs.Mehmet GönenMesil AksoyFatma İşliUmut Emre GürpınarPınar GöbelHakkı GürsözÖnder ErgönülNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Mehmet Gönen Mesil Aksoy Fatma İşli Umut Emre Gürpınar Pınar Göbel Hakkı Gürsöz Önder Ergönül Assessment of quarter billion primary care prescriptions from a nationwide antimicrobial stewardship program
description	Abstract We described the significance of systematic monitoring nationwide antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in primary care. All the prescriptions given by family physicians were recorded in Prescription Information System established by the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Ministry of Health. We calculated, for each prescription, “antibiotics amount” as number of boxes times number of items per box for medicines that belong to antiinfectives for systemic use (i.e., J01 block in the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System). We compared the antibiotics amount before (2015) and after (2016) the extensive training programs for the family physicians. We included 266,389,209 prescriptions from state-operated family healthcare units (FHUs) between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2016. These prescriptions were given by 26,313 individual family physicians in 22,518 FHUs for 50,713,181 individual patients. At least one antimicrobial was given in 37,024,232 (28.31%) prescriptions in 2015 and 36,154,684 (26.66%) prescriptions in 2016. The most common diagnosis was “acute upper respiratory infections (AURI)” (i.e., J00-J06 block in the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) with 28.05%. The average antibiotics amount over prescriptions with AURI decreased in 79 out of 81 provinces, and overall rate of decrease in average antibiotics amount was 8.33%, where 28 and 53 provinces experienced decreases (range is between 28.63% and −3.05%) above and below this value, respectively. In the most successful province, the highest decrease in average amount of “other beta-lactam antibacterials” per prescription for AURI was 49.63% in January. Computational analyses on a big data set collected from a nationwide healthcare system brought a significant contribution in improving ASPs.
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author	Mehmet Gönen Mesil Aksoy Fatma İşli Umut Emre Gürpınar Pınar Göbel Hakkı Gürsöz Önder Ergönül
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title	Assessment of quarter billion primary care prescriptions from a nationwide antimicrobial stewardship program
title_short	Assessment of quarter billion primary care prescriptions from a nationwide antimicrobial stewardship program
title_full	Assessment of quarter billion primary care prescriptions from a nationwide antimicrobial stewardship program
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Assessment of quarter billion primary care prescriptions from a nationwide antimicrobial stewardship program

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