Concordance between high antibiotic prescribing and high opioid prescribing among primary care physicians: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antimicrobial resistance and opioid misuse both present major public health challenges, and identifying high prescribers of both of these agents can help provide a common target for intervention. We sought to determine the association between being a high prescriber of antibiotics and being a high prescriber of opioids in the primary care setting.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional study of the antibiotic- and opioid-prescribing habits of primary care physicians in Ontario, Canada between Mar. 1, 2017, and Feb. 28, 2018, using administrative databases. We defined high prescribers as the top quartile of antibiotic or opioid prescribers using 3 antibiotic-prescribing metrics (prescriptions per patient visit, proportion of prescriptions that were broad spectrum a

SUBMITTER: Langford BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8034295 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature