Effectiveness and Implementation of a National Guideline for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections to Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing in Swiss Primary Care

Inclusion Criteria

• •Willing to participate in a study mainly conducted in French
• •Agreeing to participate in evaluation surveys
• •The clinic offers general practice/primary care medicine consultations, including emergencies
• •The clinic includes at least five physicians
• •The clinic has an "Admission to practice charged to Swiss compulsory health insurance"
• •The clinic plans to still be active in April 2026
• •Located in one of the following cantons: Vaud, Geneva, Valais, Fribourg, Jura, Neuchatel, Bern, Ticino.
• •Serving mainly adult patients
• •Willing to participate in the study
• •Registered primary care physicians
• •Specialist title in general internal medicine or practicing physician.
• •Practicing in one of the following cantons: Vaud, Geneva, Valais, Fribourg, Jura, Neuchatel, Bern, Ticino.
• •Participating in a QC or working in an outpatient clinic participating in the study\*.
• •Willing to participate in a study mainly conducted in French.
• •Agreeing to participate in evaluation surveys and agreeing to be invited to interviews
• •Eligibility criteria for physicians in clinics :
• •\- Having a clinical activity as primary care physician or supervising clinical activity of physicians in post-graduate training within a clinic included in the study
• •The only exclusion criterion for physicians is planning to retire before April 2026.
• •\*Note: not all physicians from a QC or a clinic are expected or required to participate individually in the study, but at least one should participate.