Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf · Apr 2008
Antibiotics in Dutch general practice: nationwide electronic GP database and national reimbursement rates.
In order to assess whether different databases generate information which can be reliable compared with each other, this study aimed to assess to which degree prescribing rates for systemic antibiotics from a nationwide electronic general practitioner (GP) database correspond with national reimbursement rates, and to investigate for which indications antibiotics are prescribed. ⋯ GPs voluntarily participating in a research network prescribe less antibiotics than Dutch GPs in general, and are cautious in prescribing newer and more broad-spectrum antibiotics. This point has to be taken into account when databases will be compared with each other.