A Retrospective Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Utilization and Quality of Antibiotic Use in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Low-Resource Settings.

Antibiotics (Basel) · 2025 · PMC12189705 · PMID 40558125

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A comparison of the median azithromycin use during the COVID-19 period (6.5) versus pre-COVID-19 period (2.2) yielded a borderline significant p -value of 0.053.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

However, the difference in use of the macrolide antibiotic group did not reach statistical significance, largely due to the decline in hospital use of azithromycin during the post-COVID-19 period ( Table 2 ).

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