Validating a popular outpatient antibiotic database to reliably identify high prescribing physicians for patients 65 years of age and older.

Validating a popular outpatient antibiotic database to reliably identify high prescribing physicians for patients 65 years of age and older.

OBJECTIVE:Many jurisdictions lack comprehensive population-based antibiotic use data and rely on third party companies, most commonly IQVIA. Our objective was to validate the accuracy of the IQVIA Xponent antibiotic database in identifying high prescribing physicians compared to the reference standa...

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Main Authors: Kevin L Schwartz, Cynthia Chen, Bradley J Langford, Kevin A Brown, Nick Daneman, Jennie Johnstone, Julie Hc Wu, Valerie Leung, Gary Garber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223097

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223097

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