As part of a special project in collaboration with the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and with funding from the BC College of Oral Health Professionals (BCCOHP), the Therapeutics Initiative mailed an individual Portrait on prescribing for dental infections to approximately 4000 dentists in BC. Dentists were randomized to three groups to receive different combinations of individual prescribing portraits and a Therapeutics Letter. Dentists receive one of two slightly different Portraits. The Portraits were mailed to the early group in October 2023 and to the delayed group in April 2024.
The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is collaborating with the UBC Therapeutics Initiative (TI) on a project related to providing prescribing Portraits to dentists on appropriate antibiotic use in dentistry.
Surveillance on dental antibiotic prescribing...
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Is Clindamycin a Good Antibiotic for Dental Infections?
Background
Dentists sometimes prescribe the antibiotic drug clindamycin in British Columbia for dental infections, although it...
An individual Portrait on prescribing for uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTI) was sent to approximately 5070 family doctors in BC, randomized to receive the Portrait in two groups. The Portraits were mailed to the early...