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
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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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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author 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
author_facet 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
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description 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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spelling pubmed-88027942022-02-01 Sustained Reduction in Urgent Care Antibiotic Prescribing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: An Academic Medical Center’s Experience 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 Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report 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. Oxford University Press 2022-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8802794/ /pubmed/35111874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab662 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. 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 (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
spellingShingle Brief Report
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
Sustained Reduction in Urgent Care Antibiotic Prescribing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: An Academic Medical Center’s Experience
title Sustained Reduction in Urgent Care Antibiotic Prescribing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: An Academic Medical Center’s Experience
title_full Sustained Reduction in Urgent Care Antibiotic Prescribing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: An Academic Medical Center’s Experience
title_fullStr Sustained Reduction in Urgent Care Antibiotic Prescribing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: An Academic Medical Center’s Experience
title_full_unstemmed Sustained Reduction in Urgent Care Antibiotic Prescribing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: An Academic Medical Center’s Experience
title_short Sustained Reduction in Urgent Care Antibiotic Prescribing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: An Academic Medical Center’s Experience
title_sort sustained reduction in urgent care antibiotic prescribing during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: an academic medical center’s experience
topic Brief Report
url 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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