Highlights
- •Residents of nursing homes (NH) described unmet antibiotic informational needs.
- •A subset of residents described seeking antibiotics from prescribers in the NH.
- •Residents may influence antibiotic treatment decisions in the NH setting.
- •Residents should be engaged in efforts to improve antibiotic prescribing in NHs.
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Funding/Support: This study was funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (PIs: Stone, Shang; 5P20NR018072).
Conflicts of Interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest.
Author contributions: All authors meet the criteria for authorship stated in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. Author contributions are as follows: study concept and design (E.C., P.S., J.S., M.G.) acquisition of subjects and/or data (E.C., G.M.), analysis and interpretation of data (E.C., P.S., J.S., M.G., G.M., C.D.), and preparation of manuscript (E.C., P.S., J.S., M.G., G.M., C.D.).
Disclosures: Study findings were presented at IDWeek 2020 (virtual conference) and appear as an abstract in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Managementand Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Sponsor's Role: The sponsor had no role in the design, methods, subject recruitment, data collections, analysis, and preparation of this paper.
