Low rates of antibiotic use among ambulatory patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

We assessed the prevalence of antibiotic prescriptions among ambulatory patients tested for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a large public US healthcare system and found a low overall rate of antibiotic prescriptions (6.7%). Only 3.8% of positive severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (...

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Autores principales: Smith, Alison G.C., Wilber, Eli, Rebolledo, Paulina A., Sharp, Joseph, Kandiah, Sheetal, Graciaa, Daniel S., Kempker, Russell R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9119305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35601658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.17
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description We assessed the prevalence of antibiotic prescriptions among ambulatory patients tested for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a large public US healthcare system and found a low overall rate of antibiotic prescriptions (6.7%). Only 3.8% of positive severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests were associated with an antibiotic prescription within 7 days.
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spelling pubmed-91193052022-05-19 Low rates of antibiotic use among ambulatory patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Smith, Alison G.C. Wilber, Eli Rebolledo, Paulina A. Sharp, Joseph Kandiah, Sheetal Graciaa, Daniel S. Kempker, Russell R. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol Concise Communication We assessed the prevalence of antibiotic prescriptions among ambulatory patients tested for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a large public US healthcare system and found a low overall rate of antibiotic prescriptions (6.7%). Only 3.8% of positive severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests were associated with an antibiotic prescription within 7 days. Cambridge University Press 2022-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9119305/ /pubmed/35601658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.17 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 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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