Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescriptions Dropped Early During COVID-19 Pandemic, Rebounded In 2021, Data Show

Healio (5/17, Stulpin) reported, “The average number of inappropriate antibiotics prescribed monthly decreased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic but returned to pre-pandemic levels by late 2021, data show.” Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, “the study showed the overall proportion of patients with one or more inappropriate prescription decreased 0.8 percentage points in March 2020 (95% CI, 1.09% – 0.51%) and then subsequently increased 0.02 percentage points per month after (95% CI, 0.01% – 0.03%).”