Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infectious Diagnoses and Antibiotic Use in Pediatric Ambulatory Practices
Sophie E. Katz, Hillary Spencer, Minhua Zhang, Ritu Banerjee
Abstract
the study period. Dark gray bars are number of encounters with infectious diagnoses, and striped bars are number of encounters with noninfectious diagnoses. Percent of encounters with an antibiotic prescribed is shown in the black line. Dashed line represents interrupted time series analysis trend line for percent of encounters with an antibiotic prescription in P1 and P2, respectively. P-value comparing slope in P1 vs P2 = 0.03. (B) Percent of encounters per week by specific diagnosis. Abbreviations: P1, pre-pandemic (
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MedicinePandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Intensive care medicineAmbulatoryMedical diagnosisVirologyAntibioticsInfectious disease (medical specialty)OutbreakInternal medicineMicrobiologyPathologyDiseaseBiologyAntibiotic Use and ResistancePatient Satisfaction in HealthcareClinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills