The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of common infections in primary care and the change to antibiotic prescribing in England

Journal article

Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the UK, with more than 250,000 hospitalised episodes in adults each year. CAP predominantly affects older adults who frequently experience high burdens of mortality and morbidity in both short and long-term. CAP research thus far has focussed on antimicrobial therapy, or in people with CAP admitted to intensive care (ICU), only 5% of episodes in the UK involve an ICU admission. Older adults bear the br...

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Authors: Yang, Y-T; Zhong, X; Fahmi, A; Watts, S; Ashcroft, DM

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: BioMed Central
• Journal: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 102-102
• Article number: 102
• Publication date: 2023-09-16
• DOI: 10.1186/s13756-023-01280-6
• EISSN: 2047-2994
• ISSN: 2047-2994
• Language: English
• Keywords: Infectious disease (medical specialty); Pandemic; Primary care; Medicine; Antibiotics; Outbreak; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); Family medicine; Medical microbiology; Intensive care medicine; Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Biology; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Virology; Disease; Internal medicine; Microbiology