How the COVID-19 pandemic altered antibiotic prescribing for common bacterial infections medrxivpreprint covid COVID19 SARSCoV2 antibiotics bacterial infections bacterialinfections
By Shanet Susan AlexJul 20 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, investigators evaluated the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the use of antibiotics in primary care for common infections.
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic altered prescribing antibiotics for common bacterial infections. As a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, antibiotic prescribing dropped between the final months of 2019 and 2021 relative to prior years, primarily because of decreased social contact and infection spread.
About the study In the present study, the researchers assessed the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on antibiotic-based primary care therapy for common infections in England. They aimed to design and validate risk prediction models for infection-linked consequences. The study population included patients with common infections such as sinusitis, upper respiratory tract infection , lower respiratory tract infection , otitis media, lower urinary tract infection , and otitis externa.
The authors discovered that the most frequently prescribed antibiotics for UTI, LRTI, and URTI were linked to a lower likelihood of infection-associated hospital admission. Further, the second-most commonly prescribed antibiotic types for UTI and LRTI were linked to a lower probability of infection-linked hospital admission, whereas this was not the case for URTI.
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