Impact of community pharmacist antibiotic prescribing for minor ailments: an interrupted time series analysis
Valerie Leung, Bradley Langford, Kevin A Brown, Dorsa Ghahramani, Julie Hoang, Anjali Oberai, Mina Tadrous, Nick Daneman, Kiran Saqib, Kevin Schwartz · 2025
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Valerie Leung and co-authors measure what changed when Ontario let pharmacists prescribe for minor ills. From the start of 2023, pharmacists there could treat thirteen minor problems, including simple bladder infections and tick-bite prevention. Their 2025 study tracks claims and prescribing before and after the change. It splits rates by provider, age, sex, and drug type.
Pharmacists filed well over a million minor-ailment claims in two years, with bladder cases the largest share. Their prescribing of bladder drugs for women jumped, while doctors' prescribing of the same drugs fell. The net rise was modest. For the tick drug, pharmacist gains were fully offset by doctor drops. The authors say pharmacists stayed within the policy's bounds.
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| CREATOR | Valerie Leung, Bradley Langford, Kevin A Brown, Dorsa Ghahramani, Julie Hoang, Anjali Oberai, Mina Tadrous, Nick Daneman, Kiran Saqib, Kevin Schwartz |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |