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Impact of an antibiotic stewardship initiative on urgent-care respiratory prescribing across patient race, ethnicity, and language.
- Source :
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Infection control and hospital epidemiology [Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol] 2024 Apr; Vol. 45 (4), pp. 530-533. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 11. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- We conducted a post hoc analysis of an antibiotic stewardship intervention implemented across our health system's urgent-care network to determine whether there was a differential impact among patient groups. Respiratory urgent-care antibiotic prescribing decreased for all racial, ethnic, and preferred language groups, but disparities in antibiotic prescribing persisted.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1559-6834
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38073559
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.258