Validating a popular outpatient antibiotic database to reliably identify high prescribing physicians for patients 65 years of age and older

• Kevin L. Schwartz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Kevin.schwartz@oahpp.ca

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3666-7005

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• Cynthia Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Bradley J. Langford,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Kevin A. Brown,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Nick Daneman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Division of Infectious Diseases, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jennie Johnstone,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Julie HC Wu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Valerie Leung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Gary Garber

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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