Improving antimicrobial prescribing in Irish primary care through electronic data collection and surveillance: a feasibility study

Table 3 ESAC drug-specific quality indicators for antimicrobial use for study practices and national data^a

Source	Consumption					Relative consumption				Broad vs. narrow	Seasonal variation
Source	J01_DID	J01C_DID	J01D_DID	J01F_DID	J01M_DID	J01CE_%	J01CR_%	J01DD + DE_%	J01MA_%	J01_B/N	J01_SV %	J01M_SV %
Study Practices	13.21	7.05	0.46	2.31	0.44	4.98	26.85	0.12	3.18	9.98	25.85	44.80
National Data^a	22.65	12.22	1.21	4.17	0.93	4.3	29.3	0.5	4.1	6.26	122.1	110.3
European Data^b	20.98	10.26	2.14	3.11	1.71	6.19	21.99	2.05	7.86	29.34	127.65	111.35

^aNational and European Data (2011) obtained from http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/antimicrobial_resistance/esac-net-database/Pages/qualityindicators-primary-care.aspx
^bBased on data available for Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

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