Impact of hospital antibiotic use on patient-level risk of death among 36,124,372 acute and medical admissions in England

<p><strong>Objectives:</strong> Initiatives to curb hospital antibiotic use might be associated with harm from undertreatment. We examined the extent to which variation in hospital antibiotic prescribing is associated with mortality risk in acute/general medicine inpatients.</p&...

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Main Authors: Budgell, E, Davies, T, Donker, T, Hopkins, S, Wyllie, D, Peto, T, Gill, M, Llewelyn, M, Walker, AS
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021