Ambulatory Antibiotic Use Patterns in Bolivia: Identifying Targets for Future Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts in Latin America

We evaluated antibiotic use in a private health insurance network in Bolivia with two different healthcare plans. The Health Maintenance Organization plan had 29% lower antibiotic consumption and fewer broad-spectrum antibiotics prescribed than the Preferred Provider Organization. Furthermore, we id...

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Autores principales: Quirós, Rodolfo E., Mesalles, Maria E., Escobar, Elvio D., Torrez, Juan Carlos Tapia, Cosgrove, Sara E., Fabre, Valeria
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10428154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37592972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2023.411
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author Quirós, Rodolfo E.
Mesalles, Maria E.
Escobar, Elvio D.
Torrez, Juan Carlos Tapia
Cosgrove, Sara E.
Fabre, Valeria
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description We evaluated antibiotic use in a private health insurance network in Bolivia with two different healthcare plans. The Health Maintenance Organization plan had 29% lower antibiotic consumption and fewer broad-spectrum antibiotics prescribed than the Preferred Provider Organization. Furthermore, we identified potential targets for future antibiotic stewardship efforts.
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spelling pubmed-104281542023-08-17 Ambulatory Antibiotic Use Patterns in Bolivia: Identifying Targets for Future Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts in Latin America Quirós, Rodolfo E. Mesalles, Maria E. Escobar, Elvio D. Torrez, Juan Carlos Tapia Cosgrove, Sara E. Fabre, Valeria Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol Concise Communication We evaluated antibiotic use in a private health insurance network in Bolivia with two different healthcare plans. The Health Maintenance Organization plan had 29% lower antibiotic consumption and fewer broad-spectrum antibiotics prescribed than the Preferred Provider Organization. Furthermore, we identified potential targets for future antibiotic stewardship efforts. Cambridge University Press 2023-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10428154/ /pubmed/37592972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2023.411 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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Quirós, Rodolfo E.
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Fabre, Valeria
Ambulatory Antibiotic Use Patterns in Bolivia: Identifying Targets for Future Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts in Latin America
title Ambulatory Antibiotic Use Patterns in Bolivia: Identifying Targets for Future Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts in Latin America
title_full Ambulatory Antibiotic Use Patterns in Bolivia: Identifying Targets for Future Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts in Latin America
title_fullStr Ambulatory Antibiotic Use Patterns in Bolivia: Identifying Targets for Future Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed Ambulatory Antibiotic Use Patterns in Bolivia: Identifying Targets for Future Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts in Latin America
title_short Ambulatory Antibiotic Use Patterns in Bolivia: Identifying Targets for Future Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts in Latin America
title_sort ambulatory antibiotic use patterns in bolivia: identifying targets for future antibiotic stewardship efforts in latin america
topic Concise Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10428154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37592972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2023.411
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