Patterns of antibacterial use and impact of age, race/ethnicity, and geographic region on antibacterial use in an outpatient Medicaid cohort

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 677-685

  Gahbauer, Alice M ^a   Gonzales, Marco L ^a   Guglielmo, B Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotic management; community practice; epidemiology; infectious disease; Medicaid

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DICLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; KETOLIDE; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROFURAN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; OUTPATIENT; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCRIPTION; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; AMBULATORY CARE; ANCESTRY GROUP; DRUG UTILIZATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DRUG UTILIZATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903898619     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: 18759114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phar.1425     Document Type: Article

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