PMID: 16512104Mar 4, 2006Paper

Antibiotic prophylaxis in oral health care: administration strategies of general dental practitioners

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
Eva EllervallK Knutsson

Abstract

To examine the strategies that general dental practitioners (GDPs) use to administer antibiotic prophylaxis and to study the agreement between the administration strategies of GDPs and local recommendations. Postal questionnaires in combination with telephone interviews were used. Two hundred GDPs in two Swedish counties, Skåne and Orebro, were asked to participate. The response rate was 51% (n = 101). The GDPs were presented with eight simulated cases of patients with different medical conditions for which antibiotic prophylaxis might be considered necessary when performing dental procedures (scaling, tooth removal, root canal treatment). The administration strategies of the GDPs were compared with local recommendations. In general, the variation in the administration strategies of the GDPs was large. For two medical conditions, type 1 diabetes that was not well controlled and hip prosthesis, significantly more GDPs in Skåne than in Orebro administered antibiotic prophylaxis for tooth removal. Agreement between the administration strategies of the GDPs and local recommendations was low. Differences between the two counties were non-significant. Furthermore, within Orebro, GDPs who did not have formal access to local recommenda...Continue Reading

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Dec 9, 2008·BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making·Eva EllervallKerstin Knutsson
Jan 21, 2009·Periodontology 2000·Gunnar Dahlén
Jan 1, 2010·Biomedical Informatics Insights·Eva EllervallKerstin Knutsson

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