Variability in changes in physician outpatient antibiotic prescribing from 2019 to 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

• Main Authors: Pranav Tandon (Author), Kevin A. Brown (Author), Nick Daneman (Author), Bradley J. Langford (Author), Valerie Leung (Author), Lindsay Friedman (Author), Kevin L. Schwartz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective: To evaluate inter-physician variability and predictors of changes in antibiotic prescribing before (2019) and during (2020/2021) the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of physicians in Ontario, Canada prescribing or...