Medical school ranking and provider outpatient Medicare Part D claims for antibiotics among older patients in the USA
Mayar Al Mohajer, David Slusky, David Nix, Catia Nicodemo · 2024
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Description
Mayar Al Mohajer and co-authors ask in 2024 whether doctors from higher ranked medical schools prescribe antibiotics less often to older patients. Overuse of these drugs is a known concern in outpatient care in the United States.
The team linked Medicare drug claim data from 2013 to 2021 with records on each provider. Nearly two hundred thousand providers were included. School rank showed no link with the rate of antibiotic days per one hundred patients. Provider type did matter: hospital and emergency doctors supplied fewer days than family doctors. Students, women, and those more than twenty years out of school supplied more. The authors call for stronger stewardship in outpatient care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mayar Al Mohajer, David Slusky, David Nix, Catia Nicodemo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |