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- Title
Appropriateness of Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Sinusitis in Primary Care: A Cross-sectional Study.
- Authors
Truitt, Katie N; Brown, Tiffany; Lee, Ji Young; Linder, Jeffrey A
- Abstract
The proportion of sinusitis visits that meet antibiotic prescribing criteria is unknown. Of 425 randomly selected sinusitis visits, 50% (214) met antibiotic prescribing criteria. There was no significant difference in antibiotic prescribing at visits that did (205/214 [96%]) and did not (193/211 [92%]; P = .07) meet antibiotic prescribing criteria.
- Subjects
ILLINOIS; ANTIBIOTICS; AMOXICILLIN; CLAVULANIC acid; MEDICAL records; PRIMARY health care; SINUSITIS; DECISION making in clinical medicine; AZITHROMYCIN; CROSS-sectional method; RETROSPECTIVE studies; ACUTE diseases; INAPPROPRIATE prescribing (Medicine); ACQUISITION of data methodology
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021, Vol 72, Issue 2, p311
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/ciaa736