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PubMed1989

The influence of an infectious disease specialist on the antimicrobial budget of a community teaching hospital.

After an infectious disease specialist (IDS) was introduced into a community teaching hospital, the use of antibiotics in eight of the main hospital departments was considerably reduced. The average daily expenditure on antibiotics before the IDS was appointed (April-June 1984) was $5.6. This was reduced in the last quarter of the study (April-June 1986) to $1.6. A drastic change, from $7.6 to $2.0, was noted in the surgical departments, due mainly to a strict policy in the prophylactic use of antibiotics. The success of the IDS was achieved by a combination of educational programmes, co-operation of the microbiology laboratory and the hospital pharmacy as well as by limiting restrictions to an extent that maintained clinical efficacy and the goodwill of those concerned.

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PubMed2000

[The registered population and its characteristics as adjustment element for individualized pharmacy budget allocation].

OBJECTIVE: To find an equation that can calculate quality reference standards on the sum expected per doctor, adjusted for the size of his/her list, his/her characteristics and patients included in chronically ill services. This objective is posed within a strategy of individualizing information and evaluation as a tool to promote improvement. DESIGN: Crossover, descriptive study. SETTING: Autonomous community of the Canary Islands. Tenerife Health Area, primary care management. PARTICIPANTS: The study was performed with 51 doctors belonging to 10 primary care teams, for whom there was quality information available due to their having used the CRONOS computer programme for a sufficient period of time. The period analyzed ran from January to November 1997. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Multiple regression analysis through automatic algorithm of step-by-step selection of variables. There was a close relationship between the variability of the pharmacy sum per doctor (adjusted r2: 0.81; F, 66.05; p < 0.000) and the size of the list; also between the former and the characteristics of the users on the list. The most relevant variables were the percentage of women over 55 and the mean drug consumption per consultation with patients during the study period. It was seen, in relation to this last variable, that the percentage of pensioners and the number of hyper-intense patients included were important. CONCLUSION: Given the high variability explained, we propose broadening the study to all the doctors, so as to give the results greater consistency and offer quality reference information, in line with the above-mentioned improvement plan.

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PubMed2003

German gloom on budget prospects.

Thousands of German researchers including five Nobel laureates have signed an open letter of protest against the proposed freeze of research funding. Michael Gross reports.

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