Trends in outpatient antibiotic use and prescribing practice among US older adults, 2011-15: observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify temporal trends in outpatient antibiotic use and antibiotic prescribing practice among older adults in a high income country.

Design

Observational study using United States Medicare administrative claims in 2011-15.

Setting

Medicare, a US national healthcare program for which 98% of older adults are eligible.

Participants

4.5 million fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years old and older.

Main outcome measurements

Overall rates of antibiotic prescription claims, rates of potentially appropriate and inappropriate prescribing, rates for each of the most frequently prescribed antibiotics, and rates of antibiotic claims associated with specific diagnoses. Trends in antibiotic use were estimated by multivariable regression ad

SUBMITTER: Olesen SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6062849 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature