{"id":4106,"date":"2018-01-29T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2018-01-29T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:35:57","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-emergency-department-visits-for-acute-viral-upper-respiratory-tract-infection-that-had-an-antimicrobial-ordered-or-prescribed-by-metropolitan-statistical-area-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/01\/29\/4106\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Emergency Department Visits for Acute Viral Upper Respiratory Tract Infection That Had an Antimicrobial Ordered or Prescribed, by Metropolitan Statistical Area \u2014 United States, 2008\u20132015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6703a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/figures\/mm6703a7-F.gif\" width=\"451\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 2008\u20132011 to 2012\u20132015, the percentage of visits for acute viral upper respiratory tract infection that had an antimicrobial ordered or prescribed decreased from 37.1% to 25.5% among emergency departments (EDs) located in nonmetropolitan statistical areas, but this decline was not seen among EDs in metropolitan statistical areas.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008\u20132011, the percentage was higher among nonmetropolitan EDs than metropolitan EDs, but there was no difference in 2012\u20132015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2008\u20132015<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6703a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6703a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2008\u20132011 to 2012\u20132015, the percentage of visits for acute viral upper respiratory tract infection that had an antimicrobial ordered or prescribed decreased from 37.1% to 25.5% among emergency departments (EDs) located in nonmetropolitan statistical areas, but this decline was not seen among EDs in metropolitan statistical areas. In 2008\u20132011, the percentage was higher among<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61990,63690,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}