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Explaining variation in antibiotic prescribing for common infections: a three-way variance decomposition using UK primary care data

2026-05-05

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<h4>Background</h4> Benchmarking has been used to target clinically unwarranted variation in antimicrobial prescribing in UK primary care. However, variation in antibiotic prescribing between general practices may be partly explained by differences in case-mix. We aimed to quantify how much variation in antibiotic prescribing for common infections was attributable to differences in prescribing between practices a...

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Literature Corpus work: 9606c7d3-27ea-5d9f-8b3a-1752dfd9d082
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.04.26352315

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