Community pharmacists’ referrals to General Practice with suspected need of antibiotics: a national prospective pilot

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<h4>Background</h4> Interventions to minimise community antibiotic use have focused on the GP and patient behaviour rather than the community pharmacist. Patient expectations are a known driver for antibiotic prescribing, and pharmacists may be inveterately contributing to these expectations by referring patients for GPs for suspected antibiotic-requiring infections (S-ARI). We sought to quantify these referral ra...

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• Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
• Data-Driven Disease Surveillance

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6b5d7952-faa7-581f-8ce5-dc6e81d0370e

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10.1101/2024.06.19.24309200