Non-prescribed antibiotic access was more common among urban residents and individuals not enrolled in health insurance schemes. This means of antibiotic access was also more common among individuals concerned about distance, drug availability, and healthcare convenience at public facilities. In addition,...
On the one hand, the scarcity of public healthcare facilities in certain rural or remote areas, the high costs of drugs, the absence of sustainable financing systems (e.g. healthcare insurance) and the lack of a reliable drug supply system limit the access to a wide variety of much-...
Non-prescribed antibiotic access was more common among urban residents and individuals not enrolled in health insurance schemes. This means of antibiotic access was also more common among individuals concerned about distance, drug availability, and healthcare convenience at public facilities. In addition,...
A comparison of liquid antibiotic prescription usage and costs in 2009 found that children younger than 9 years enrolled in US private insurance plans were more likely to be treated with antibiotics, were more likely to receive azithromycin, and had to pay more for the same drugs compared with ...
Most of the antibiotic wastes are currently disposed of through animal feedstock, landfills, and incineration; however, each method generates its own waste and has its own cost. New alternative antibiotic waste utilization technologies, such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs), are excellent and sustainabl...
Trend of antibiotics usage for acute pyelonephritis in Korea based on national health insurance data 2010–2014. BMC Infect Dis. 2019;19(1):554. 14. Wie SH, Ki M, Kim J, Cho YK, Lim SK, Lee JS, et al. Clinical characteristics pre‑ dicting early clinical failure after 72 h of...
Eric MyersAnd using an insurance payer data and you know how often antibiotic prescriptions resulted from encounters that probably shouldn't have resulted in antibiotics and like, you know, viral URIs and things. So, we're starting to look at that, but it ...
15. Epperson TM, Bennett KK, Kupiec KK, et al. Impact of a Pharmacist-Managed Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Service on Cost Savings and Clinical Outcomes at an Academic Medical Center.Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023;3(1):e15. doi:10.1017/ash.2022.374 ...
The most cited formulary restrictions were need for approval from medical/specialised committee (vancomycin, 77.1%; linezolid, 68.0%), cost and insurance coverage (linezolid, 9.8%) and renal insufficiency (vancomycin, 14.6%). Linezolid was the most frequently listed antibiotic on MRSA cSSTI ...
37 In 2020, Germany also introduced the Act on Fair Competition among Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV-FKG),38 which speeds up the benefit assessment of the antibiotic targeting the abovementioned priority pathogens. This was successfully implemented in May 2022 with the antibiotic Cefiderocol...