A Continuing Medical Education Campaign to Improve Use of Antibiotics in Primary Care
Table 2
Perceived barriers to achieving appropriate antibiotic use in responder’s practice at University of Colorado, Family Medicine Review, 2012 .
Barrier
Number (% of all barriers identified)
Patient expectations/agendas
146 (27.1)
Breaking old habits
75 (13.9)
Fear that patients will go elsewhere
65 (12.1)
Patient complexity
45 (8.3)
Worry about patient complaints
39 (7.2)
Staff need more training
29 (5.4)
Appointment time
29 (5.4)
Medical-legal concerns
20 (3.7)
Patient adherence
20 (3.7)
Competing priorities
14 (2.6)
Need for additional skills
12 (2.2)
Relationships with other physicians
10 (1.9)
Others
9 (1.7)
Staff competing priorities
8 (1.5)
Reimbursement
5 (0.9)
Organizational policies
3 (0.6)
**Remembering
4 (0.7)
No barriers
2 (0.4)
From a menu of 18 items plus “no barriers,” each respondent was asked to select the top three. The total of responses averages about 3.06 per respondent because some gave more than 3. We chose to include all selected responses.
**Remembering: recalling what practice changes to make.
