Minimizing Antibiotic Resistance in Colorado (MARC)

一个基础广泛的利益相关者联盟已经合作，通过制定和传播临床实践指南和实践概况，以减少科罗拉多州的过度抗生素使用，2600初级保健医生在整个国家。 是否，多少和什么类型的公众和患者教育，以大规模的努力，以减少不必要的抗生素使用是未知的。 科罗拉多抗生素耐药性最小化（MARC）项目旨在评估公众和患者教育对临床医生处方行为的两种常见机制的独立和综合边际影响：1）家庭和办公室材料，2）大众媒体（电视、广播、新闻纸、网站）。 以下具体目标将审查与每项干预战略有关的护理过程和结果。 该项目的结果将为州和联邦改善门诊抗生素处方实践的努力提供信息。具体目标IA：利用（1）家庭和办公室材料，（2）大众媒体，制定和实施社区教育干预措施。特定目标IB：使用来自医生实践的商业MCO和Medicaid管理数据，测量和评估儿童咽炎和成人支气管炎抗生素处方率的变化。具体目标IIA：在干预社区内外进行入户调查，衡量每项教育战略对公众知识、态度、行为和自我效能的影响。具体目标IIB：进行临床医生判断分析，以衡量每种教育策略对与咽炎和支气管炎护理事件相关的临床医生决策和授权的影响。具体目标IIIA：对儿童咽炎和成人支气管炎患者和家长进行调查，以衡量减少抗生素使用对疾病持续时间和护理满意度的影响。具体目标IIIB：使用来自科罗拉多公共卫生和环境部（CDPHE）的主动监测数据，比较侵袭性青霉素耐药沙门氏菌的发生率。肺炎感染的干预社区内外。具体目标IIIC：对不同层次的社区教育进行净成本分析。

A broad-based coalition of stakeholders has collaborated to reduce excess antibiotic use in Colorado by developing and disseminating clinical practice guidelines and practice profiles to 2600 primary care physicians throughout the state. Whether, how much and what type of public and patient education to employ on large-scale efforts to decrease unnecessary antibiotic use is not known. The Minimizing Antibiotic Resistance in Colorado (MARC) Project is designed to evaluate the independent and combined marginal impact of two common mechanisms of public and patient education in clinician prescribing behavior: 1) household and office-based materials, and 2) mass media (television, radio, newsprint, web site). The following specific aims will examine the processes and outcomes of care related to each intervention strategy. Results from this project will inform state and federal efforts to improve ambulatory antibiotic prescribing practices. Specific Aim IA: Develop and implement community educational interventions using (1) household and office-based materials, and (2) mass media. Specific Aim IB: Measure and assess changes in antibiotic prescription rates for pharyngitis in children, and bronchitis in adults, using commercial MCO and Medicaid administrative data from physician practices. Specific Aim IIA: Conduct household surveys in and outside the intervention communities to measure the impact of each education strategy on public knowledge, attitudes, behavior and self- efficacy. Specific Aim IIB: Conduct a clinician judgment analysis to measure the impact of each education strategy on clinician decision making and empowerment relating to episodes of care for pharyngitis and bronchitis. Specific Aim IIIA: Conduct a survey of patients and parents to measure the impact of decreased antibiotic use on duration of illness and satisfaction with care, for children with pharyngitis and adults with bronchitis. Specific Aim IIIB: Using active surveillance data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), compare the incidence of invasive penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae infections in and outside the intervention communities. Specific Aim IIIC: Conduct a net-cost analysis of the different levels of community education.