Trends in Antibiotic Use in United States Hospitals During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Ashley N Rose; James Baggs; Hannah Wolford; Melinda M Neuhauser; Arjun Srinivasan; Adi V Gundlapalli; Sujan Reddy; Lyudmyla Kompaniyets; Audrey F Pennington; Cheri Grigg; Sarah Kabbani

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofab236

Trends in Antibiotic Use in United States Hospitals During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Jun 3;8(6):ofab236. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab236. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Affiliations

¹ Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² CDC COVID-19 Response Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

We described antibiotic use among inpatients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Most COVID-19 inpatients received antibiotic therapy. We also described hospital-wide antibiotic use during 2020 compared with 2019, stratified by hospital COVID-19 burden. Although total antibiotic use decreased between years, certain antibiotic use increased with higher COVID-19 burden.

Keywords: COVID-19; antibiotic use; antimicrobial stewardship; epidemiology.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021.