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

• मुख्य लेखकों: Alex Orlek (लेखक), Eleanor Harvey (लेखक), Louis Fisher (लेखक), Amir Mehrkar (लेखक), Seb Bacon (लेखक), Ben Goldacre (लेखक), Brian MacKenna (लेखक), Diane Ashiru-Oredope (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: MDPI AG, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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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...