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27.07.2017 | Capsule Commentary
Capsule Commentary on Klein et al., Categorical Risk Perception Drives Variability in Antibiotic Prescribing in the Emergency Department: a Mixed Methods Observational Study
verfasst von:
Jeffrey A. Linder, MD, MPH, FACP
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 10/2017
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Excerpt
Klein and colleagues compared emergency department clinicians’ acute respiratory infection (ARI) antibiotic prescribing with clinicians’ decision-making frameworks, or “gists,” regarding ARIs and antibiotics.
1 Clinicians who had survey responses that aligned with what they describe as a “why-not-take-a-risk” gist—probably better described as the “antibiotics-are-low-risk-and-the-patient-won’t-get-better-without-them” gist—had higher antibiotic prescribing. Clinicians who had survey responses that aligned with an “antibiotics-may-be-harmful” gist had lower antibiotic prescribing. …