Do hospitalists who prescribe high (risk-adjusted) rates of antibiotics do so repeatedly?

• Main Authors: Udodirim Onwubiko (Author), Christina Mehta (Author), Zanthia Wiley (Author), Jesse Jacob (Author), Ashley Jones (Author), Shabir Hassan (Author), Marybeth Sexton (Author), Sujit Suchindran (Author), Scott Fridkin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Provider-specific prescribing metrics can be used for benchmarking and feedback to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use; however, metrics must be credible. To improve credibility of a recently described risk-adjusted antibiotic prescribing metric for hospital medicine service (HMS) provider...