Antibiotic Prescriptions Associated With Dental-Related Emergency Department Visits.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

The frequency of antibiotic prescribing and types of antibiotics prescribed for dental conditions presenting to the emergency department (ED) is not well known. The objective of this study is to quantify how often and which dental diagnoses made in the ED resulted in an antibiotic prescription.

Methods

From 2011 to 2015, there were an estimated 2.2 million (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.9 to 2.5 million) ED visits per year for dental-related conditions, which accounted for 1.6% (95% CI 1.5% to 1.7%) of ED visits. This is based on an unweighted 2,125 observations from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey in which a dental-related diagnosis was made.

Results

An antibiotic, most often a narrow-spectrum penicillin or clindamycin, was presc

SUBMITTER: Roberts RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6943909 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature