Nonprescription Antimicrobial Use in a Primary Care Population in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Community antimicrobial resistance rates are high in communities with frequent use of nonprescription antibiotics. Studies addressing nonprescription antibiotic use in the United States have been restricted to Latin American immigrants. We estimated the prevalence of nonprescription antibiotic use in the previous 12 months as well as intended use (intention to use antibiotics without a prescription) and storage of antibiotics and examined patient characteristics associated with nonprescription use in a random sample of adults. We selected private and public primary care clinics that serve ethnically and socioeconomically diverse patients. Within the clinics, we used race/ethnicity-stratified systematic random sampling to choose a random sample of primary care patients. We used a self-admin

SUBMITTER: Zoorob R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4997852 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature