Antibiotic Use Among Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 in the United States, March 2020-June 2022

Overview

Journal Open Forum Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2023 Nov 9

PMID 37942462

Authors

Christine Kim

Hannah Wolford

James Baggs

Sujan Reddy

Lauri A Hicks

Melinda M Neuhauser

Sarah Kabbani

Affiliations

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Abstract

We conducted a retrospective study to describe antibiotic use among US adults hospitalized with a COVID-19 diagnosis. Despite a decrease in overall antibiotic use, most patients hospitalized with COVID-19 received antibiotics on admission (88.1%) regardless of critical care status, highlighting that more efforts are needed to optimize antibiotic therapy.

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