The effect of antibiotic prescription in non-critically ill hospitalized patients with COVID-19: A Japanese inpatient database study

• Haruka Imai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Division of Infectious Diseases, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan

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• Jun Suzuki,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan

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• Tomoki Mizuno,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan

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• Shota Takahashi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan

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• Hideya Itagaki,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Department of Social and Community Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan

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• Makiko Yoshida,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan, Division of the Crisis Management Network for Infectious Diseases, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan

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• Shiro Endo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan, Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan, Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Department of Social and Community Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan, Division of the Crisis Management Network for Infectious Diseases, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan

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• Eiichi N. Kodama

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eiichi.kodama.e2@tohoku.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Division of Infectious Disease, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6622-2752

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