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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2016

Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Among United States Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.

Guillermo V Sanchez, Adam L Hersh, Daniel J Shapiro, James F Cawley, Lauri A Hicks

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Guillermo V SanchezDivision of Healthcare Quality Promotion , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, Georgia.
Adam L HershDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases , University of Utah , Salt Lake City.
Daniel J ShapiroSchool of Medicine , University of California, San Francisco.
James F CawleySchool of Medicine and Health Sciences , George Washington University , Washington, District of Columbia.
Lauri A HicksDivision of Healthcare Quality Promotion , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, Georgia.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · USGeorge Washington University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Utah · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examined US nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) outpatient antibiotic prescribing. Antibiotics were more frequently prescribed during visits involving NP/PA visits compared with physician-only visits, including overall visits (17% vs 12%,

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antibiotic resistancefamily practicephysician's practice patterns/trendsprimary carerespiratory tract infections/drug therapy

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PMID27704022
PMCPMC5047413
OpenAlexW2521297527

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