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- Title
Antibiotic prescriptions are associated with increased patient satisfaction with emergency department visits for acute respiratory tract infections.
- Authors
Stearns, Cordelia R; Gonzales, Ralph; Camargo, Carlos A, Jr; Maselli, Judith; Metlay, Joshua P
- Abstract
Health care providers cite patient satisfaction as a common reason for prescribing antibiotics for viral acute upper respiratory infections (URIs), even though quality performance measures emphasize nonantibiotic treatment for these conditions. In a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomized trial to test a combined patient and physician educational intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing for URIs, the authors examined whether satisfaction is greater among patients diagnosed with URIs who are prescribed antibiotics in emergency department (ED) settings.
- Publication
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 10, p934
- ISSN
1553-2712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00522.x