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Impact of an antibiotic stewardship initiative on urgent-care respiratory prescribing across patient race, ethnicity, and language.

Authors :
Seibert AM
Hersh AL
Patel PK
Hicks LA
Fino N
Stanfield V
Stenehjem EA
Source :
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

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