Medical Xpress July 22, 2025
Urgent care visits are often associated with inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics, glucocorticoids, and opioids, according to a research letter published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Shirley Cohen-Mekelburg, M.D., from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues examined inappropriate antibiotic, glucocorticoid, and opioid prescribing during urgent care visits in a cross-sectional study of outpatients of all ages with an urgent care place-of-service code from Jan. 1, 2018, to Dec. 31, 2022. Data included represented more than 270 million Americans and 12.9 million Medicare supplemental beneficiaries.
A total of 10,773,218 patients from 22,426,546 urgent care visits were identified. The researchers found that 12.4%, 9.1%, and 1.3% of visits led to antibiotic, glucocorticoid, and opioid prescription fills, respectively.
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