Decreases and Pronounced Geographic Variability in Antibiotic Prescribing in Medicaid

• Autors principals: Alexia G. Aguilar (Autor), Priscilla C. Canals (Autor), Maria Tian (Autor), Kimberly A. Miller (Autor), Brian J. Piper (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: MDPI AG, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Antibiotic resistance is a persistent and growing concern. Our objective was to analyze antibiotic prescribing in the United States (US) in the Medical Expenditure Panel System (MEPS) and to Medicaid patients. We obtained MEPS prescriptions for eight antibiotics from 2013 to 2020. We extracted presc...