Question: The inappropriate and overuse of antibiotics is a well-recognized problem in medicine. To test whether it was possible to encourage more appropriate use of antibiotics in elderly hospitalized patients, Monika Lutters and her colleagues monitored the number of patients receiving antibiotics in a 304-bed geriatric unit at her hospital before any intervention, after providing information to the physicians taking care of patients in the unit, after providing pocket cards With specific therapeutic guidelines for the use of antibiotics to treat the most common need for antibiotics in these patients (urinary and respiratory tract infections) combined with weekly lectures on appropriate use of antibiotics, then while the pocket cards were continued but the lectures stopped. The number of patients in the unit receiving antibiotics was recorded on each of 12 days under each experimental condition (see Table 10—18). Did the educational interventions have any effect on the number of patients receiving antibiotics? If so, how?

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