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 (Author), Eleanor Harvey (Author), Louis Fisher (Author), Amir Mehrkar (Author), Seb Bacon (Author), Ben Goldacre (Author), Brian MacKenna (Author), Diane Ashiru-Oredope (Author)
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Published: MDPI AG, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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