Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) in Patients With a Sore Throat (ASP-Throat)

Vastra Gotaland Region

Status: Completed

Conditions: Streptococcus Pharyngitis; Sore Throat; Pharyngitis Bacterial; Pharyngitis; Tonsillitis

Treatments: Other: ASP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03408704

U1111-1207-9573

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 49 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a primary health care center in the Vastra Gotaland region, Sweden accepting participation

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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49 participants in 2 patient groups

ASP-arm

Experimental group

Description:

This group of primary health care centers get the internal education (ASP).

Treatment:

Other: ASP

Control-arm

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention at all.