Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03408704
Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) in Patients With a Sore Throat
The Effectiveness of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) in Primary Health Care in the Management of Patients With a Sore Throat
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 49 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Vastra Gotaland Region · Other Government
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The investigators have developed an antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) to increase adherence to the Swedish guidelines for managing patients with a sore throat. This is a randomized controlled trial where primary health care centers are randomised to get the ASP or not. The adherence to the Swedish guidelines are measured in all participating centers.
Detailed description
The investigators have developed an antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) to increase adherence to the Swedish guidelines for managing patients with a sore throat. This is a randomized controlled trial where primary health care centers are randomised to get the ASP or not. The adherence to the Swedish guidelines are measured in all participating centers 6 months before and after implementation of the ASP. The ASP consists of educational meetings at the clinic for medical practitioners and nurses being informed about current guidelines, seeing their clinics adherence to the guidelines as well as discussing cases.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | ASP | It consists of one educational session where doctors and staff at the center discuss current guidelines around management of patients attending for a sore throat. At the education the following is discussed: 1. The Swedish guidelines 2. Example of cases 3. Statistics from previous 6 month showing how well this clinic adheres to the Swedish guidelines. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-01-17
- Primary completion
- 2022-02-28
- Completion
- 2022-02-28
- First posted
- 2018-01-24
- Last updated
- 2022-06-06
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Sweden
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03408704. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.