Study Identifies Prescribers At Risk For Inappropriate Antibiotic Use

Healio (5/3, Stulpin) reported, “A study assessing outpatient antibiotic prescribing among clinicians in Philadelphia successfully identified those considered ‘high-volume prescribers’ who may be at risk for inappropriate antibiotic use.” In the study, “the researchers identified the top 25% of these prescribers by antibiotic volume, and then determined that these 89 contributed 60.5% of all antibiotic claims and 55.5% of the claims for the three specific drugs combined.” These results were presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Spring Conference.