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Since guidelines on antibiotic drug treatment often focus on appropriate first choice drugs, assessment of guideline adherence should only concentrate on the first drug prescribed, and not on subsequent antibiotics prescribed after failure of the first one. Purpose To determine a valid cut-off point for a definition of “first” or “new” prescription in indicators for the assessment of the quality...