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

• Главные авторы: Alex Orlek (Автор), Eleanor Harvey (Автор), Louis Fisher (Автор), Amir Mehrkar (Автор), Seb Bacon (Автор), Ben Goldacre (Автор), Brian MacKenna (Автор), Diane Ashiru-Oredope (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: MDPI AG, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...