The Illusionary Correlation in Antibiotic Prescriptions: It May Exist but Requires Further Elucidation With Rigorous Methodology

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
• ² Department of Rheumatology, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
• ³ Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
• ⁵ Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of General Internal Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
• ⁷ Center for Innovative Research for Communities and Clinical Excellence, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.