Antibiotic prescribing practice in residential aged care facilities—health care providers' perspectives.
Lim CJ, Kwong MW-L, Stuart RL, et al. Antibiotic prescribing practice in residential aged care facilities--health care providers' perspectives. Med J Aust. 2014;201(2):98-102.
This qualitative study explored barriers to appropriate antibiotic use in residential aged care facilities in Australia. Several organizational and cultural issues emerged, including inadequate staffing of on-site physicians which placed the burden of infection diagnosis and management on nurses not sufficiently trained to perform this role.