Patients without records and records without patients: review of patient records in primary care and implications for surveillance of antibiotic prescribing in rural China

• Main Authors: Rachel Kwiatkowska (Author), Xingrong Shen (Author), Manman Lu (Author), Jing Cheng (Author), Matthew Hickman (Author), Helen Lambert (Author), Debin Wang (Author), Isabel Oliver (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background We need to monitor patterns of antibiotic prescribing in order to develop and evaluate antibiotic stewardship interventions in rural China. As part of a multidisciplinary study of antibiotic use in Anhui Province we assessed the validity of electronic records (e-records) as a sou...