Changes in antibiotic prescribing by dentists in the United States, 2012-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Dentists prescribe 10% of all outpatient antibiotics in the United States and are the top specialty prescriber. Data on current antibiotic prescribing trends are scarce. Therefore, we evaluated trends in antibiotic prescribing rates by dentists, and we further assessed whether these trends differed by agent, specialty, and by patient characteristics.

Design

Retrospective study of dental antibiotic prescribing included data from the IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Data set from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2019.

Methods

The change in the dentist prescribing rate and mean days' supply were evaluated using linear regression models.

Results

Dentists wrote >216 million antibiotic prescriptions between 2012 and 2019. The annual dental antibiotic prescri

SUBMITTER: Ramanathan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10665869 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature