Infectious disease physician characteristics and prescription of meropenem in the hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Physician characteristics may be correlated with medical treatment decisions and patient outcomes. This study examined the correlations between characteristics of infectious disease (ID) physicians and the use of the restricted antimicrobial meropenem.

Design

This was a retrospective cohort study following 27 attending ID physicians for 5 years at a large academic medical center.

Methods

All inpatient ID clinical encounters between 2013 and 2018 were assessed for physician and patient characteristics, including patient Charlson Comorbidity Index, patient sex, ID service seeing the patient, physician career stage, physician training location, and physician sex. Adjusted and unadjusted odds ratios were calculated for the receipt of meropenem on the same day as

SUBMITTER: Challener D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10390666 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature