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Swedish Antibiotic Nursing Home Trial (SANT)

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Karolinska Institute

Status

Completed

Conditions

Urinary Tract Infections
Infections

Treatments

Behavioral: Educational intervention on antibiotic prescribing

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01054677
dnr 03-070

Details and patient eligibility

About

Main aim and objective

The aim was to present the treatment of infectious diseases in elderly, especially in nursing homes and further to evaluate the effect of an intervention package aiming at improving treatment with antibiotics in Swedish nursing homes

Specific objectives

  • Present the treatment patterns regarding infectious diseases, including gender aspects in elderly, especially in nursing homes.
  • Through focus group discussions elucidate the decision making process in nursing homes and target the intervention.
  • Based on the above information develop an educational intervention to contribute to the improvement of the prescribing of antibiotics in nursing homes
  • Evaluate the effect of the intervention on quality of prescribing, knowledge and attitudes in relation to available guidelines

Sex

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • nursing homes where residents have a common dining room and staff, and a self-assessed stable staff situation

Exclusion criteria

  • specialised nursing homes or wards (e.g. oncology wards)

Trial design

0 participants in 2 patient groups

Educational intervention on antibiotic prescribing
Experimental group
Description:
The participants in this group received an educational intervention.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Educational intervention on antibiotic prescribing
No educational intervention
No Intervention group
Description:
The participants in this group did not receive the educational intervention

Trial contacts and locations

0

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