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Characteristics of Primary Care Physicians Associated With High Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Volume.


ABSTRACT: Our objective was to identify characteristics associated with high-volume antibiotic prescribing among office-based primary care physicians to target antibiotic stewardship efforts. Physicians aged 40 years and older who were male, located in the South, and in solo or 2-physician practices prescribed higher volumes of antibiotics than their peers by specialty.

SUBMITTER: Fleming-Dutra KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5788066 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Characteristics of Primary Care Physicians Associated With High Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Volume.

Fleming-Dutra Katherine E KE   Bartoces Monina M   Roberts Rebecca M RM   Hicks Lauri A LA  

Open forum infectious diseases 20180105 1


Our objective was to identify characteristics associated with high-volume antibiotic prescribing among office-based primary care physicians to target antibiotic stewardship efforts. Physicians aged 40 years and older who were male, located in the South, and in solo or 2-physician practices prescribed higher volumes of antibiotics than their peers by specialty. ...[more]

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