Look-Back and Look-Forward Durations and the Apparent Appropriateness of Ambulatory Antibiotic Prescribing

• Main Authors: Adriana Guzman (Author), Tiffany Brown (Author), Ji Young Lee (Author), Michael A. Fischer (Author), Mark W. Friedberg (Author), Kao-Ping Chua (Author), Jeffrey A. Linder (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Ambulatory antibiotic stewards, researchers, and performance measurement programs choose different durations to associate diagnoses with antibiotic prescriptions. We assessed how the apparent appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing changes when using different look-back and look-forward periods. E...