%0 Thesis
%9 PhD
%A Lum, Elaine P.M.
%D 2017
%F quteprints:107540
%K Antibiotics
%K Antibiotic resistance
%K Community Pharmacist
%K Consumer
%K General Practitioner
%K Decision-making
%K Discrete Choice Experiment
%K Interviews
%K Mixed method
%K Primary healthcare
%R 10.5204/thesis.eprints.107540
%T Making decisions about antibiotic use in the Australian primary healthcare sector
%U https://eprints.qut.edu.au/107540/
%X Antibiotic use drives antibiotic resistance, a global issue with significant human health and economic burden. Australia’s antibiotic consumption is above the OECD average.  However, it is unclear which factors are most important for driving antibiotic use in Australian primary healthcare. This research established the most important factors influencing general practitioners to prescribe antibiotics and consumers to use antibiotics. In addition, a model was developed — the Enabling Antibiotic Eupraxis (EABE) model — to explain the drivers of antibiotic use from three perspectives: general practitioners, community pharmacists and consumers. This evidence informs the implementation of Australia’s national antimicrobial resistance strategy.