Factors Associated with Antimicrobial Drug Use in Medicaid Programs

Abstract

Using US Medicaid data, we found that 52% of adult Medicaid patients with acute respiratory tract infections filled prescriptions for antimicrobial drugs in 2007. Factors associated with lower likelihood of use were higher county-level availability of primary care physicians and state-level participation in a campaign for appropriate antimicrobial drug use.

Keywords

• antibiotic use
• Medicaid
• acute respiratory tract infections
• factors
• antimicrobial drug use