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Curbing Over-Prescription of Antibiotics: Ranking Clinicians Is a Nudge That Sticks — Quartz at Work

Curbing Over-Prescription of Antibiotics: Ranking Clinicians Is a Nudge That Sticks — Quartz at Work: You are not a top performer

In the 2016�JAMA�paper, the team studied the prescribing habits of 248 clinicians (such as doctors and nurse practitioners) at 47 primary care practices in Los Angeles and Boston. They focused on antibiotic prescription rates across 17,000 cases in which the clinician diagnosed acute respiratory illness, which does not warrant antibiotics. For the first 18 months, the researchers simply tracked prescribing habits. Then, between November 1, 2011, and October 1, 2012, they employed several intervention strategies and continued to document.

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