Retrospective evaluation of antibiotics consumption in the outpatient setting: feasibility study of a sentinel monitoring based on community pharmacy data

• In: CPS 4. The role of the pharmacist in public health - Posters
• At: Beijing (China) (2007)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: CPS4-P-020
• By: FIGUEIREDO, Hugo Filipe (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland)
• Co-author(s): Zanetti, Giorgio (Service of Infectious Diseases, LAUSANNE, Switzerland)
  Ruggli, Martine (Swiss Association of Pharmacists, BERN-LIEBEFELD, Switzerland)
  Bugnon, Olivier (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, GENEVA, Switzerland)
  
• Abstract:

  The benchmarking of the physicians-pharmacists quality circles (QC), based on the community pharmacies billing data, was a good opportunity to analyze the consumption of antibiotics in Switzerland. A comparison was made over
  
  3 years (2002-2004) within one geographic area between: a) antibiotics prescribed by 160 primary care physicians (PCP)..

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