Introduction
UTIs
URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) in women lead to frequent consultation in primary care.Various strategies to improve antibiotic prescribing behaviours (ie, to align to recommendations more closely) by healthcare providers in primary care have been explored but none has been identified as the most successful strategy.Therefore, we aimed to investigate whether a multimodal intervention could reduce the number of prescriptions of second line antibiotics that GPs prescribe for women with UTIs. The intervention consisted of guideline recommendations for GPs and patients, provision of regional resistance data, and quarterly feedback that includes information on individual antibiotic prescribing proportions of first and second line antibiotics, benchmarking, and telephone counselling.