Programa educativo virtual para mejorar la prescripción antibiótica en médicos rurales

Authors

  • Marco Ribelino Ojeda Orellana Universidad de Cuenca

Keywords:

Interfaz-usuario computador, educación, recursos humanos, médicos, Prescripciones de medicamentos, antibacterianos, administración y dosificación, infecciones frecuentes, atención primaria, estrategias educativas de prescripción

Abstract

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE

To evaluate a virtual educational program for rural doctors in the provinces of Azuay, Cañar, Loja and Morona Santiago to improve knowledge and prescription of antibiotics in pharyngitis, urinary tract infection, infectious diarrhea and pyoderma.

METHODOLOGY

A random experimental double-blind study was made, in which 102 rural doctors from the provinces mentioned before attended during the period February-October 2011. Through the virtual platform MOODLE a course of antibiotics based on OPS, Sandford and from MSP was applied to 53 doctors in the intervention group, and on another platform, a course about “Critical analysis of pharmaceutical promotion” was applied to 49 physicians in the control group. They were evaluated with a questionnaire applied before and after the new knowledge acquired and the quality of prescriptions before and after the course.

RESULTS

The virtual course improved significantly, the average score of the questionnaire was 7.5 / 10 to 8.07 / 10 (p = 0.037) in the intervention group, as well as the score of the recipes in all diagnoses. The relative risk of the intervention on the presence of a bad prescription was 0.53 (p = 0.0) and about bad questionnaire’s grade was 0.78 (p=0.0).

CONCLUSIONS

The virtual education program improved significantly the knowledge and the quality of outpatient prescriptions for pharyngitis, urinary tract infection, infectious diarrhea and pyoderma.

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Rev. Fac. Cienc. Méd. Univ. Cuenca. Vol 32 Nº 1 Abril 2014

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2019-07-17

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Vol. 32 No. 1 (2014): Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Universidad de Cuenca

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