A Continuing Medical Education Campaign to Improve Use of Antibiotics in Primary Care

Table 3

Identified strategies to realistically use to overcome the barriers to appropriate antibiotic use, among survey responders at University of Colorado, Family Medicine Review, 2012 (𝑁=505)^∗.

Strategy	Number (% of all strategies identified)
Patient education/educational materials/information sheets	148 (29.3)
Having paper copies of guidelines	73 (14.5)
Develop a practice policy	56 (11.1)
Practice audit to see how my practice is doing	55 (10.9)
Signs in reception area/office	45 (8.9)
More physician education	37 (7.3)
Longer appointment time	24 (4.7)
More staff education	21 (4.2)
Accessing guidelines electronically	19 (3.8)
Staff meeting to discuss this problem	16 (3.2)
Others	11 (2.1)

∗From a menu of 11 strategies, each respondent was asked to select the top 3. The total of all responses averages about 2.87 because not all respondents selected 3. We chose to display all responses.