Outpatient antibiotic prescribing during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationwide register-based time series analysis.

Results from the ARIMA modelling showed that at the baseline, before the pandemic, the level of monthly number of antibiotic prescriptions was 248,560 (95% CI: 224,261 to 272,856; p<0.001) and there was a decreasing trend of 1,202 in monthly number of prescriptions (95% CI: -2,107 to -262; p<0.01).

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However, after the immediate drop, an increasing trend in monthly number of prescriptions was detected–however, the change in trend was not statistically significant (1,218; 95% Cl: -545 to 2,981; p<0.18).

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