Evaluating antimicrobial prescriptions in primary health care across an entire Brazilian city through the analysis of electronic medical records: where public health and data science converge.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exploring records from entire cities to make decisions, particularly within public health systems, remains challenging.

Methods

This study investigates the public health data of São Caetano do Sul (SCS), in Brazil, to uncover patterns of antimicrobial prescriptions for infectious diseases using electronic health system records from primary care. Data science techniques such as preprocessing, transformation, loading, and analytics were also applied to achieve this goal.

Results

From January to September 2023, a total of 575,616 records of medical appointments were analyzed, and 67,023 patients underwent one or more medical appointments of which 16,572 had infectious diagnoses. There were 7,938 prescriptions of antimicrobials for infections of which the most

SUBMITTER: Maita ARC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12613338 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature