Patient Characteristics Associated with Repeat Antibiotic Prescribing Pre- and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Nationwide Cohort Study of >19 Million Primary Care Records Using the OpenSAFELY Platform

Patient Characteristics Associated with Repeat Antibiotic Prescribing Pre- and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Nationwide Cohort Study of >19 Million Primary Care Records Using the OpenSAFELY Platform

COVID-19 pandemic-related pressures on primary care may have driven the inappropriate continuation of antibiotic prescriptions. Yet, prescribing modality (repeat/non-repeat) has not previously been investigated in a pandemic context. With the approval of NHS England, we conducted a retrospective coh...

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Main Authors: Alex Orlek, Eleanor Harvey, Louis Fisher, Amir Mehrkar, Seb Bacon, Ben Goldacre, Brian MacKenna, Diane Ashiru-Oredope
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-06-01
Series:Pharmacoepidemiology
Subjects:
antibiotic stewardship
antibiotic prescribing
COVID-19
primary care
electronic health records
antimicrobial stewardship
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2813-0618/2/2/16

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https://www.mdpi.com/2813-0618/2/2/16

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