GP antibiotic overuse and microbial resistance.

Weiler correctly highlights some of the limitations of primary care prescribing data:1 Research databases such as the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD, formerly the GPRD) record information on issued prescriptions, prescribing analyses and cost (PACT) data records prescriptions that are dispensed. Neither of these methods …

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