Use of Antibiotics Among Patients Hospitalized for Exacerbations of Asthma

JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Sep 1;176(9):1397-400. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.4050.

Authors

Peter K Lindenauer¹, Mihaela S Stefan¹, Laura C Feemster², Meng-Shiou Shieh³, Shannon S Carson⁴, David H Au², Jerry A Krishnan⁵

Affiliations

¹ Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts2Division of Hospital Medicine, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts3Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development, Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, Seattle, Washington5Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Washington, Seattle.
³ Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts.
⁴ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
⁵ Population Health Sciences Program, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
Asthma / drug therapy*
Asthma / epidemiology
Black or African American / statistics & numerical data
Cephalosporins / therapeutic use
Comorbidity
Disease Progression
Female
Heart Failure / epidemiology
Hospitalization
Hospitals, Teaching / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Inappropriate Prescribing
Macrolides / therapeutic use
Male
Middle Aged
New England
Odds Ratio
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data*
Quinolones / therapeutic use
Retrospective Studies
Southeastern United States
Tetracyclines / therapeutic use
United States
White People / statistics & numerical data

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Cephalosporins
Macrolides
Quinolones
Tetracyclines

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