Antibiotic Prescribing Quality in Out-of-Hours Primary Care and Critical Appraisal of Disease-Specific Quality Indicators
Outpatient antibiotic use in Belgium is among the highest in Europe.The most common reason for an encounter in out-of-hours (OOH) primary care is an infection.In this study, we assessed all consultations from July 2016 to June 2018 at five OOH services.We described antibiotic prescribing by diagnosis, calculated disease-specific antibiotic prescrib