Outpatient antibiotic stewardship during the COVID-19 era: analysis of prescribing trends and guideline compliance.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyze antibiotic prescribing trends and guideline concordance in outpatient settings using electronic health records (EHRs).

Design

This quality improvement study utilized data from the Collaboration to Harmonize Antimicrobial Registry Measures (CHARM) database, which integrates antibiotic prescribing data extracted from the EHRs of various outpatient facilities.

Setting

The study was conducted across 352 outpatient facilities in the United States.

Participants

The study included oral antibiotic prescribing data from outpatient encounters from January 2021 to June 2023, encompassing 823,938 prescriptions.

Methods

The primary outcomes were the rate of antibiotic prescribing per 1 000 prescription-related outpatient visits and identifying fr

SUBMITTER: Sohn M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12322779 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature