June 25, 2024PLoS ONEOpen Access

Ambulatory antibiotic prescription rates for acute respiratory infection rebound two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

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ESElizabeth R. StevensNYU Langone Health DFDavid FeldsteinUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison SJSimon JonesNHS Fife

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Retrospective analysis reveals a rebound in acute respiratory infection antibiotic prescribing across ambulatory practices, indicating that pandemic-era reductions were temporary.

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Ambulatory antibiotic prescribing rates for acute respiratory infection fell to 38.5 per 100 encounters during COVID-19 before rebounding back to the baseline of 54.7.
Trend analyses evaluated electronic health data from 364 primary and urgent care clinics across four academic health systems between January 2017 and June 2022.
Highlights that the pandemic-era decline in prescribing was temporary, emphasizing the need for sustained antibiotic stewardship to address clinician prescribing behaviors.

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Stevens et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e635d4b6db6435875c72ea https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306195

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Retrospective analysis reveals a rebound in acute respiratory infection antibiotic prescribing across ambulatory practices, indicating that pandemic-era reductions were temporary.

Ambulatory antibiotic prescription rates for acute respiratory infection rebound two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Ambulatory antibiotic prescription rates for acute respiratory infection rebound two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

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