Miroslav Sirota
@miroslavsirota.bsky.social
Behavioural scientist researching reasoning, health decision-making, communication of risk and antimicrobial resistance. Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex.
It was a great keynote!
October 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
It was a great keynote!
Thank you so much for sharing, @jefflinder.bsky.social. We used CRPs in primary care contexts and study when people think they need antibiotics. (So not prescribing.) But there is support for CRPs influencing antibiotics prescribing eg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
C-reactive protein point-of-care testing to guide antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections
Antimicrobial resistance is strongly correlated with the volume of antibiotics used. Most antibiotics are prescribed in primary care, mostly for respiratory tract infections (RTIs), and are often u...
www.tandfonline.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Thank you so much for sharing, @jefflinder.bsky.social. We used CRPs in primary care contexts and study when people think they need antibiotics. (So not prescribing.) But there is support for CRPs influencing antibiotics prescribing eg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We would like to finish most of data collection by the end of this year. Does it sound reasonable?
June 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
We would like to finish most of data collection by the end of this year. Does it sound reasonable?
Reposted by Miroslav Sirota
I presented our latest preprint validating interventions to mitigate #AntibioticResistance by reducing the pressure that patients place on clinicians to prescribe unnecessary #antibiotics — slides and link to preprint below:
(I'll summarize the final online talk from Andriana Theodoropoulou next.)
(I'll summarize the final online talk from Andriana Theodoropoulou next.)
How can #BehSci combat #antimicrobialResistance?
Many patients expect needless #antibiotics (doi.org/10.3201/eid2...), which #nudges clinicians to prescribe 'em (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....).
So we validated nudges to improve patient expectations (N ≅ 1k): osf.io/preprints/psy...
Many patients expect needless #antibiotics (doi.org/10.3201/eid2...), which #nudges clinicians to prescribe 'em (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....).
So we validated nudges to improve patient expectations (N ≅ 1k): osf.io/preprints/psy...
May 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I presented our latest preprint validating interventions to mitigate #AntibioticResistance by reducing the pressure that patients place on clinicians to prescribe unnecessary #antibiotics — slides and link to preprint below:
(I'll summarize the final online talk from Andriana Theodoropoulou next.)
(I'll summarize the final online talk from Andriana Theodoropoulou next.)
Congrats! Looking forward to reading them all.
April 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Congrats! Looking forward to reading them all.
All done for you!
February 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
All done for you!