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Antibiotic-Use Screening Evaluations (ABUSE) for Physicians and Patients: Featuring Prizes and Penalties for Physicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ludwig A. Lettau
Ludwig A. Lettau*
Affiliation:
Trident Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina
*
2093 Henry Tecklenburg Dr, Suite 308, Charleston, SC 29414
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Abstract

The excessive use of antibiotics in the United States has been well documented and is a result of the knowledge base and behaviors of not only prescribing physicians but also patients and caregivers. An antibiotic-use screening evaluation (ABUSE) was developed for each group to promote better awareness among all parties as to ways that they may be overusing antibiotics. The ABUSE questionnaires also serve as tools for confidential self-scoring evaluation of the extent of personal antibiotic misuse.

Type
Readers' Forum
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 12 , December 2000 , pp. 796 - 799
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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