Factors Associated With Longer Than Recommended Durations of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Ambulatory Infections in an Integrated Healthcare System

Across the ambulatory care network of an integrated health care system, durations of antibiotic therapy prescribed for uncomplicated infections were longer than recommended in 39% of cases. By logistic regression, site of care, prescriber characteristics, and type of infection were independently ass...

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Autores principales: Vazquez Deida, Axel A, Shihadeh, Katherine C, Aragon, Deborah, Knepper, Bryan C, Jenkins, Timothy C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8495728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab324
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author Vazquez Deida, Axel A
Shihadeh, Katherine C
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description Across the ambulatory care network of an integrated health care system, durations of antibiotic therapy prescribed for uncomplicated infections were longer than recommended in 39% of cases. By logistic regression, site of care, prescriber characteristics, and type of infection were independently associated with longer than recommended durations of therapy.
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spelling pubmed-84957282021-10-07 Factors Associated With Longer Than Recommended Durations of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Ambulatory Infections in an Integrated Healthcare System Vazquez Deida, Axel A Shihadeh, Katherine C Aragon, Deborah Knepper, Bryan C Jenkins, Timothy C Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Across the ambulatory care network of an integrated health care system, durations of antibiotic therapy prescribed for uncomplicated infections were longer than recommended in 39% of cases. By logistic regression, site of care, prescriber characteristics, and type of infection were independently associated with longer than recommended durations of therapy. Oxford University Press 2021-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8495728/ /pubmed/34631924 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab324 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Factors Associated With Longer Than Recommended Durations of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Ambulatory Infections in an Integrated Healthcare System
title Factors Associated With Longer Than Recommended Durations of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Ambulatory Infections in an Integrated Healthcare System
title_full Factors Associated With Longer Than Recommended Durations of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Ambulatory Infections in an Integrated Healthcare System
title_fullStr Factors Associated With Longer Than Recommended Durations of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Ambulatory Infections in an Integrated Healthcare System
title_full_unstemmed Factors Associated With Longer Than Recommended Durations of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Ambulatory Infections in an Integrated Healthcare System
title_short Factors Associated With Longer Than Recommended Durations of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Ambulatory Infections in an Integrated Healthcare System
title_sort factors associated with longer than recommended durations of antibiotic therapy for uncomplicated ambulatory infections in an integrated healthcare system
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8495728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab324
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