Impact of different COVID-19 encounter definitions on antibiotic prescribing rates in urgent care

• Main Authors: Sharon Onguti (Author), David Ha (Author), Emily Mui (Author), Amy Chang (Author), Eddie Stenehjem (Author), Adam Hersh (Author), Marisa Holubar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Billing data have been used in the outpatient setting to identify targets for antimicrobial stewardship. However, COVID-19 ICD-10 codes are new, and the validity of using COVID-19 ICD-10 codes to accurately identify COVID-19 encounters is unknown. We investigated COVID-19 ICD-10 utilizat...