Population-based assessment of patient and provider characteristics influencing pediatric outpatient antibiotic use in a high antibiotic-prescribing state.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify patient and provider characteristics associated with high-volume antibiotic prescribing for children in Tennessee, a state with high antibiotic utilization.

Design

Cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of pediatric (aged <20 years) outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in Tennessee using the 2016 IQVIA Xponent (formerly QuintilesIMS) database.

Methods

Patient and provider characteristics, including county of prescription fill, rural versus urban county classification, patient age group, provider type (nurse practitioner, physician assistant, physician, or dentist), physician specialty, and physician years of practice were analyzed.

Results

Tennessee providers wrote 1,940,011 pediatric outpatient antibiotic prescriptions yielding an antibio

SUBMITTER: Katz SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7335628 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature