ArticleAntimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE2024
Appropriateness of Antibiotic Prescribing in US Emergency Department Visits, 2016-2021.
Article in Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Appropriateness of antibiotic selection at emergency department discharge and risk of 30-day adverse events in patients with acute exacerbation of COPD.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2026Observational
- Rapid Diagnostics for Distinguishing Bacterial and Viral Infections: A Review of Technologies, Clinical Utility, and Stewardship Implications.Biosensors · 2026Review
- Neighborhood Deprivation, Antibiotic Prescribing Concordance, and 30-Day Outcomes After Emergency Department Encounters in Older Adults.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Outpatient RSV Testing Rates Among US Adults with Lower Respiratory Tract Disease, 2017-2024.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2026Article
- Physician Feedback Reduces Antibiotic Prescribing for Uncomplicated Upper Respiratory Tract Infection in the Emergency Department.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Development of a Reference Standard to Assign Bacterial Versus Viral Infection Etiology Using an All-inclusive Methodology for Comparison of Novel Diagnostic Tool Performance.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025Article
- A pilot intervention to improve the management of urinary tract infections in outpatient settings.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025Article
- Association of patient, physician and visit characteristics with inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in Japanese primary care: a cross-sectional study.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Less is more: evaluating the impact of transitions of care pharmacist-led optimization on discharge antibiotic therapy duration in the emergency department.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025Article
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Abstract
In this national analysis of US emergency department visits with antibiotic prescribing during 2016-2021, 27.6% of visits resulted in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing: 14.9% had diagnosis codes plausibly antibiotic-related (eg, acute bronchitis), suggesting actual inappropriate prescribing, and 12.6% had diagnosis codes not plausibly antibiotic-related (eg, hypertension), suggesting poor coding quality.
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