Table 3 Factors influencing antibiotic prescribing – Subcategories, Categories and Theme
Sub categories | Categories | Theme |
|---|---|---|
Dedicated Chief/Medical adviser | Promoting management and leadership – facilitating structure | Common practice in line with guidelines |
Promoting evidence-based practice | ||
The organization’s inner work | ||
Professional discussions – within and between professions | Local processing – Internalization of guidelines | |
Feedback | ||
Informal opinion moulders | ||
Testing | GP’s diagnostic process | |
Clinical criteria | ||
Self-care advice | Standardized nurse triage | |
Routines and procedures | ||
Doctor accessibility | ||
Patient-centred consultation | Patient expectation | |
Perceived patient expectation |