Impact of an antibiotic stewardship initiative on urgent-care respiratory prescribing across patient race, ethnicity, and language.
Allan M SeibertAdam L HershPayal K PatelLauri A HicksNora FinoValoree StanfieldEdward A StenehjemPublished in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2023)
We conducted a post hoc analysis of an antibiotic stewardship intervention implemented across our health system's urgent-care network to determine whether there was a differential impact among patient groups. Respiratory urgent-care antibiotic prescribing decreased for all racial, ethnic, and preferred language groups, but disparities in antibiotic prescribing persisted.