Sustained Reduction in Urgent Care Antibiotic Prescribing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: An Academic Medical Center’s Experience

We compared antibiotic prescribing before and during the ­coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic at 2 academic urgent care clinics and found a sustained decrease in prescribing driven by respiratory encounters and despite transitioning to telemedicine. Antibiotics were rarely prescribed during...

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Autores principales: Ha, David, Ong’uti, Sharon, Chang, Amy, Mui, Emily, Nelligan, Ian, Betts, Brooke, Lentz, Christopher, Alegria, William, Fox, Emily, Meng, Lina, Stenehjem, Edward, Hersh, Adam L, Deresinski, Stanley, Artandi, Maja, Holubar, Marisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8802794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35111874
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab662
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Sumario:We compared antibiotic prescribing before and during the ­coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic at 2 academic urgent care clinics and found a sustained decrease in prescribing driven by respiratory encounters and despite transitioning to telemedicine. Antibiotics were rarely prescribed during encounters for COVID-19 or COVID-19 symptoms. COVID-19 revealed opportunities for outpatient stewardship programs.

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