- Recommendation ID
- Ng15/2
- Question
Decision-making:- What interventions, systems and processes are effective and cost effective in changing health and social care practitioners' decision-making and ensuring appropriate antimicrobial stewardship?
- Any explanatory notes
(if applicable) Recommendation:- Randomised controlled trials should be undertaken to determine whether using point-of-care tests in decision-making is clinically and cost effective when prescribing antimicrobials in children, young people and adults presenting with respiratory tract infections.
Source guidance details
- Comes from guidance
- Antimicrobial stewardship: systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use
- Number
- NG15
- Date issued
- August 2015
Other details
| Is this a recommendation for the use of a technology only in the context of research? | No |
| Is it a recommendation that suggests collection of data or the establishment of a register? | No |