Electronically Available Patient Claims Data Improve Models for Comparing Antibiotic Use Across Hospitals: Results From 576 US Facilities.
Katherine E GoodmanLisa PinelesLaurence S MagderDeverick J AndersonElizabeth Dodds AshleyRonald E PolkHude QuanWilliam E TrickKeith F WoeltjeSurbhi LeekhaSara E CosgroveAnthony D HarrisPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
Adding electronically available patient claims data to facility models consistently improved antibiotic utilization predictions and yielded substantial movement in hospitals' utilization rankings.