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From: Infectious disease management in primary care: perceptions of GPs

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The outcome space. The outcome space describes the relationships among the categories of description. Here categories are presented in a hierarchical order at four levels. Dominating aspects in the five categories of description were: A) the health and well-being of the patient; the duty of the GP to help patients, B) the GP's personal and professional experiences and expectations; perceived organizational demands, C) restrictive antibiotic prescribing should be considered; the general public is ignorant of common infectious diseases; restrictive antibiotic practice is time-consuming; D) the risk of non-effective antibiotics in the future is a reality; antibiotic use leads to resistant bacteria; patients and GPs must stand some discomfort for the sake of the future, and E) antibiotics have impact on patients' immunological resistance; patients with common infections who refrain from antibiotics are strengthened in the long run.

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