Clinicians who primarily practice in nursing homes and outcomes among residents with urinary tract infection or pneumonia.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
; 3(1): e253, 2024.
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ABSTRACT
Objective:
Assess the association between clinicians who primarily practice in nursing homes (NHs) and 14-day resident outcomes following initial antibiotic dispensing for pneumonia or urinary tract infection (UTI).Design:
Retrospective cohort.Setting:
U.S. NHs.Participants:
NH residents aged ≥65 years who were prescribed antibiotics for pneumonia or UTI between 1 January 2016 and 30 November 2018.Methods:
Medicare fee-for-service claims were linked to Minimum Data Set data. Clinicians who primarily practiced in NHs prescribed ≥90% of Part D dispensings to NH residents. Outcomes included death, all-cause and infection-specific hospitalization, and subsequent antibiotic dispensing. Adjusted risk ratios were estimated using inverse-probability-of-treatment-weighted (IPTW) modified Poisson regression models adjusting for 53 covariates.Results:
The study population included 28,826 resident-years who were prescribed antibiotics for pneumonia and 106,354 resident-years who were prescribed antibiotics for UTI. Among the pneumonia group, clinicians who primarily practiced in NHs were associated with a greater risk of death (RR 1.3; 95%CLs 1.0, 1.6), lower risks of all-cause (RR 0.9; 95%CLs 0.8, 0.9) and infection-specific hospitalization (RR 0.8; 95%CLs 0.7, 0.9), and similar risk of subsequent antibiotic dispensing (RR 1.0; 95%CLs 1.0, 1.1) after IPTW. No meaningful associations were observed between clinicians who primarily practiced in NHs and outcomes among the UTI group.Conclusions:
Clinicians who primarily practiced in NHs were associated with a lower risk of hospitalization but greater risk of mortality for NH residents with pneumonia. Further examination is needed to better understand drivers of differences in infection-related outcomes based on clinicians' training and primary practice setting.
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Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
Año:
2024
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Article
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Estados Unidos