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Association between antibiotic prescribing and visit duration among patients with respiratory tract infections

Daniel J Shapiro et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022 Sep.

Abstract

Time constraints have been suggested as a potential driver of antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections. In this cross-sectional analysis of national data from visits to offices and emergency departments, we identified no statistically significant association between antibiotic prescribing and the duration of visits for acute respiratory tract infections.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest. L.M.K. is employed by Chenega Enterprise Systems and Solutions and is assigned to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of a contract covering multiple tasks and positions. All other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Distribution of visit durations in offices and emergency departments, stratified by whether antibiotics were prescribed. Distribution of visit durations in offices (A) and emergency departments (B), stratified by whether antibiotics were prescribed. There were no statistically significant differences between those prescribed antibiotics and those not prescribed antibiotics in the proportion of patients in each category of visit duration in offices (p = 0.85 based on chi-square test) or emergency departments (p = 0.19).

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