Antibiotic consumption and medication cost in diabetic patients: Insights from Iran health insurance organization (IHIO) claims data

• Arash Bagherian Ghotbi ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as the first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Benyamin Khoshparast ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as the first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Hamidreza Hekmat,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Baharloo Hospital, International Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Zahra Shahali,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran

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• Ali Golestani ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aligolestani7597@gmail.com (AG); tabatabaeiml@sina.tums.ac.ir (OTM)

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aligolestani7597@gmail.com (AG); tabatabaeiml@sina.tums.ac.ir (OTM)

  Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0188-9721

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