IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/socmed/v224y2019icp149-155.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Effect of physicians' knowledge on antibiotics rational use in China's county hospitals

Author

Listed:
  • Guan, Xiaodong
  • Tian, Ye
  • Song, Jiafang
  • Zhu, Dawei
  • Shi, Luwen

Abstract

Irrational prescriptions of antibiotics have received significant international attention. In China, previous studies have described the impact of physicians’ knowledge on antibiotic use, however, empirical studies of the relationship between physician knowledge and antibiotic prescription behavior are limited.

Suggested Citation

  • Guan, Xiaodong & Tian, Ye & Song, Jiafang & Zhu, Dawei & Shi, Luwen, 2019. "Effect of physicians' knowledge on antibiotics rational use in China's county hospitals," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 224(C), pages 149-155.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:224:y:2019:i:c:p:149-155
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.01.049
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619300553
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.01.049?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kathleen Anne Holloway & Laura Rosella & David Henry, 2016. "The Impact of WHO Essential Medicines Policies on Inappropriate Use of Antibiotics," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(3), pages 1-12, March.
    2. Chen, Chun & Dong, Weizhen & Shen, Jay J. & Cochran, Christopher & Wang, Ying & Hao, Mo, 2014. "Is the prescribing behavior of Chinese physicians driven by financial incentives?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 40-48.
    3. Mingsheng Chen & Lijie Wang & Wen Chen & Luying Zhang & Hongli Jiang & Wenhui Mao, 2014. "Does Economic Incentive Matter for Rational Use of Medicine? China’s Experience from the Essential Medicines Program," PharmacoEconomics, Springer, vol. 32(3), pages 245-255, March.
    4. Reynolds, Lucy & McKee, Martin, 2009. "Factors influencing antibiotic prescribing in China: An exploratory analysis," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 90(1), pages 32-36, April.
    5. Wenhui Mao & Huyen Vu & Zening Xie & Wen Chen & Shenglan Tang, 2015. "Systematic Review on Irrational Use of Medicines in China and Vietnam," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(3), pages 1-16, March.
    6. Sun, Xiaoyun & Jackson, Sukhan & Carmichael, Gordon A. & Sleigh, Adrian C., 2009. "Prescribing behaviour of village doctors under China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 68(10), pages 1775-1779, May.
    7. Heng Wang & NianNian Li & Haidi Zhu & Shuman Xu & Hua Lu & ZhanChun Feng, 2013. "Prescription Pattern and Its Influencing Factors in Chinese County Hospitals: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(5), pages 1-9, May.
    8. Currie, Janet & Lin, Wanchuan & Meng, Juanjuan, 2014. "Addressing antibiotic abuse in China: An experimental audit study," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 39-51.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Aggarwal, Mayank & Chakrabarti, Anindya S. & Chatterjee, Chirantan & Higgins, Matthew J., 2023. "Research and market structure: Evidence from an antibiotic-resistant pathogenic outbreak," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(1).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Chenxi Liu & Chaojie Liu & Dan Wang & Xinping Zhang, 2019. "Knowledge, Attitudes and Intentions to Prescribe Antibiotics: A Structural Equation Modeling Study of Primary Care Institutions in Hubei, China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-16, July.
    2. Xuan Wang & Yuqing Tang & Xiaopeng Zhang & Xi Yin & Xin Du & Xinping Zhang, 2014. "Effect of Publicly Reporting Performance Data of Medicine Use on Injection Use: A Quasi-Experimental Study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(10), pages 1-7, October.
    3. Currie, Janet & Lin, Wanchuan & Meng, Juanjuan, 2014. "Addressing antibiotic abuse in China: An experimental audit study," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 39-51.
    4. Wenhui Mao & Yunyu Huang & Wen Chen, 2019. "An analysis on rational use and affordability of medicine after the implementation of National Essential Medicines Policy and Zero Mark-up Policy in Hangzhou, China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(3), pages 1-13, March.
    5. Yang, Lianping & Liu, Chaojie & Ferrier, J. Adamm & Zhang, Xinping, 2015. "Organizational barriers associated with the implementation of national essential medicines policy: A cross-sectional study of township hospitals in China," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 201-208.
    6. Zhang, Yi & Zhou, Zhongliang & Si, Yafei, 2019. "When more is less: What explains the overuse of health care services in China?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 232(C), pages 17-24.
    7. Cheo, Roland & Ge, Ge & Godager, Geir & Liu, Rugang & Wang, Qiqi & Wang, Jian, 2018. "The effect of a mystery shopper scheme on prescriptions in primary care," HERO Online Working Paper Series 2018:1, University of Oslo, Health Economics Research Programme.
    8. Ge, Ge & Cheo, Roland & Liu, Rugang & Wang, Jian & Wang, Qiqi, 2023. "Physician beneficence and profit-taking among private for profit clinics in China: A field study using a mystery shopper audit," HERO Online Working Paper Series 2023:6, University of Oslo, Health Economics Research Programme.
    9. Fu, Hongqiao & Li, Ling & Yip, Winnie, 2018. "Intended and unintended impacts of price changes for drugs and medical services: Evidence from China," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 211(C), pages 114-122.
    10. Cheo, Roland & Ge, Ge & Liu, Rugang & Wang, Jian & Wang, Qiqi, 2023. "Physician beneficence and profit-taking among private for-profit clinics in China: A field study using a mystery shopper audit," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
    11. Roland Cheo & Ge Ge & Geir Godager & Rugang Liu & Jian Wang & Qiqi Wang, 2020. "The effect of a mystery shopper scheme on prescribing behavior in primary care: Results from a field experiment," Health Economics Review, Springer, vol. 10(1), pages 1-19, December.
    12. Carolina Lopez & Anja Sautmann & Simone Schaner, 2022. "Does Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs?," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 14(1), pages 225-260, January.
    13. Currie, Janet & Lin, Wanchuan & Zhang, Wei, 2011. "Patient knowledge and antibiotic abuse: Evidence from an audit study in China," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 30(5), pages 933-949.
    14. Nguyen, Hong-Kong T. & Vuong, Quan-Hoang & Ho, Tung Manh & Vuong, Thu-Trang, 2018. "The “same bed, different dreams” of Vietnam and China: how (mis)trust could make or break it," OSF Preprints khtn5, Center for Open Science.
    15. Wang, Jing & Gong, Yanhong & Wu, Jianxiong & Jiang, Nan & Chen, Zhenyuan & Yin, Xiaoxv, 2021. "Antibiotic dispensing patterns and patient interventions for upper respiratory tract infections by hospitals and retail pharmacies: A cross-sectional study based on standardized patients," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 272(C).
    16. Mengna Luan & Wenjing Shi & Zhigang Tao & Hongjie Yuan, 2023. "When patients have better insurance coverage in China: Provider incentives, costs, and quality of care," Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 31(4), pages 1073-1106, October.
    17. Shanshan Guo & Wenchao Du & Shuqing Chen & Xitong Guo & Xiaofeng Ju, 2019. "Exploring the Impact of the Rational Antibiotic Use System on Hospital Performance: The Direct Effect and the Spillover Effect," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(18), pages 1-13, September.
    18. Maria Vittoria Levati & Ivan Soraperra & Saba Yifredew, 2023. "How to Curb Over-The-Counter Sales of Antibiotics? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia," Working Papers 10/2023, University of Verona, Department of Economics.
    19. Sebastian Panthöfer, 2022. "Do doctors prescribe antibiotics out of fear of malpractice?," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 19(2), pages 340-381, June.
    20. Farasat A.S. Bokhari & Franco Mariuzzo & Weijie Yan, 2019. "Antibacterial resistance and the cost of affecting demand: the case of UK antibiotics," Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) 2019-03, Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:224:y:2019:i:c:p:149-155. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.