Compliance With Antibiotic Treatment in General Practice

Norwegian Medical Association

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Compliance

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01291251

VH-TBE-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The guidelines of The Norwegian authorities concerning the use of antibiotics in general practice state that for several common diseases such as pneumonia and tonsillitis, antibiotics should be given four times daily instead of three times daily. The study´s aim is to see whether the patient compliance is significantly reduced in antibiotic regimes of 3 or 4 daily doses as compared to 1 or 2 daily doses.

Full description

All patients given antibiotic tablets, independent of diagnosis and medicament, are included. All patients give a written consent. Within a week after the end of the treatment all patients are contacted by one of the authors and asked a few standardized questions concerning their compliance with the treatment.

Enrollment: 270 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any patient given antibiotics for any cause

Exclusion criteria

• Use of mixture instead of tablets
• Tablets administrated by public health care services