Leveraging the McGeer Criteria to Estimate the Frequency of Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Urinary and Respiratory Tract Infections Relative to the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Skilled Nursing Facility.

Paulina M Colombo, Ferris A Ramadan, Dilsharan Kaur, Darunee Armenta, Peter P Patterson, Katherine D Ellingson

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Paulina M ColomboDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1650-4524

Ferris A RamadanDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.

Dilsharan KaurClinical Translational Sciences, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

Darunee ArmentaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.

Peter P PattersonDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.

Katherine D EllingsonDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7624-312X

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Arizona Biomedical Research Centre (ABRC) ADHS18-19885

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antibiotic prescribingantimicrobial stewardshipCOVID-19McGeer criteriaskilled nursing facility

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PMID39858321

DOI10.3390/antibiotics14010035

PMCPMC11759821

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