Development and validation of antibiotic stewardship metrics for outpatient respiratory tract diagnoses and association of provider characteristics with inappropriate prescribing.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine metrics and provider characteristics associated with inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract diagnoses (RTDs).

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Primary care practices in a university health system.

Participants

Patients seen by an attending physician or advanced practice provider (APP) at their primary care office visit with International Classification of Disease, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM)-coded RTDs.

Methods

Medical records were reviewed for 1,200 randomly selected office visits in which an antibiotic was prescribed to determine appropriateness. Based on this gold standard, metrics and provider characteristics associated with inappropriate antibiotic prescribing were determined

SUBMITTER: Degnan KO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9904452 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature