In reply: We acknowledge the importance of the consumer in shared decision making regarding patient care. Our focus was to explore antibiotic prescribing practices from health care providers' perspectives,1 including workflow-related factors, in residential aged care facilities (RACFs).
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- 1. 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: 101-105. <MJA full text>
- 2. Consumers Health Forum of Australia. Community Quality Use of Medicines and Diagnostics Project. Consumer and general practice use of antibiotics: a consumer information and discussion paper. Canberra: CHF, 2011.
- 3. McNulty CAM, Boyle P, Nichols T, et al. The public's attitudes to and compliance with antibiotics. J Antimicrob Chemother 2007; 60 Suppl 1: i63-i68.
- 4. Coenen S, Michiels B, Renard D, et al. Antibiotic prescribing for acute cough: the effect of perceived patient demand. Br J Gen Pract 2006; 56: 183-190.
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