Look-Back and Look-Forward Durations and the Apparent Appropriateness of Ambulatory Antibiotic Prescribing

Look-Back and Look-Forward Durations and the Apparent Appropriateness of Ambulatory Antibiotic Prescribing

Ambulatory antibiotic stewards, researchers, and performance measurement programs choose different durations to associate diagnoses with antibiotic prescriptions. We assessed how the apparent appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing changes when using different look-back and look-forward periods. E...

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Main Authors: Adriana Guzman, Tiffany Brown, Ji Young Lee, Michael A. Fischer, Mark W. Friedberg, Kao-Ping Chua, Jeffrey A. Linder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-11-01
Series:Antibiotics
Subjects:
antimicrobial stewardship
cohort studies
anti-bacterial agents
drug utilization
quality of healthcare
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/11/11/1554

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