Antibiotic dispensing during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of Welsh primary care dispensing data

• Published in: Family practice Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 420 - 425
• Main Authors: Wasag, Diana R, Cannings-John, Rebecca, Hughes, Kathryn, Ahmed, Haroon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 28.05.2022
• Subjects: Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Communicable Disease Control; COVID-19 - drug therapy; COVID-19 - epidemiology; Epidemiology; Humans; Pandemics; Practice Patterns, Physicians; Primary Health Care; COVID-19; RTIs; antibiotic dispensing/prescribing; general practice; UTIs

The COVID-19 pandemic led to rapid changes in demand and delivery of primary care services that could have led to increases in antibiotic prescribing. We investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on oral antibiotic dispensing rates in primary care in Wales using longitudinal analysis of month...