Use of electronic pharmacy transaction data and website development to assess antibiotic use in nursing homes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services required all long-term care facilities, including nursing homes, to have an antibiotic stewardship program. Many nursing homes lack the resources, expertise, or infrastructure to track and analyze antibiotic use measures. Here, we demonstrate that pharmacy invoices are a viable source of data to track and report antibiotic use in nursing homes.

Methods

The dispensing pharmacy working with several nursing homes in the same healthcare corporation provided pharmacy invoices from 2014 to 2016 as files formatted as comma separated values. We aggregated these files by aligning elements into a consistent set of variables and assessed the completeness of data from each nursing home over time. Data cleaning involved r

SUBMITTER: Song S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8097250 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature