Outpatient Antibiotic Prescriptions — United States, 2016

Systemic oral antibiotics were extracted from the IQVIA Xponent database. IQVIA captured an estimated 90% of outpatient prescriptions for any medication nationally, reconciled them to wholesale deliveries, and projected to 100% coverage. These data represent all outpatient antibiotic prescriptions from community pharmacies from all payers, but exclude federal facilities. Provider specialties are taken from the American Medical Association (AMA) self-designated practice specialties and categorized into one of 17 groups. Population data were obtained from the U.S. Census bridging files.

References

Hicks, L.A., et al., US Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Variation According to Geography, Patient Population, and Provider Specialty in 2011. Clin Infect Dis, 2015. 60(9): p. 1308-16.

Age group^a

Sex^a

Region^b

^aTotals may not add to all oral prescriptions (270.2 million) due to missing data
^bTotals may not add to all oral prescriptions (270.2 million) due to rounding.

Antibiotic class

Antibiotic agent

Figure 1. Antibiotic prescriptions per 1000 persons by state (sextiles) for all ages — United States, 2016.

This project was made possible through a partnership with the CDC Foundation. Support for this project was provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.