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. 2014 May;20(5):829-32.
doi: 10.3201/eid2005.130493.

Factors associated with antimicrobial drug use in medicaid programs

Pengxiang Li, Joshua P Metlay, Steven C Marcus, Jalpa A Doshi

Factors associated with antimicrobial drug use in medicaid programs

Pengxiang Li et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 May.

Abstract

Using US Medicaid data, we found that 52% of adult Medicaid patients with acute respiratory tract infections filled prescriptions for antimicrobial drugs in 2007. Factors associated with lower likelihood of use were higher county-level availability of primary care physicians and state-level participation in a campaign for appropriate antimicrobial drug use.

Keywords: Medicaid; acute respiratory tract infections; antimicrobial drug use; factors.

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Percentage of antimicrobial drug use, by type of agent, among 194,874 adult Medicaid patients in 40 US state Medicaid programs. Data are from the 2007 Medicaid Analytic Extract files.
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