Impact of COVID-19 on corticosteroids and antibiotics prescribing in England: an interrupted time series analysis

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab017On March 11, the WHO declared that the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus was at pandemic levels. In the UK, a number of public health measures such as social distancing and lockdown were introduced to minimise viral transmission. We sought to assess whether or not the initial outbreak of COVID-19 was associated with a change in the prescription rates of ICS, prednisolone, and antibiotics in primary care in England.Find the datasets and R scripts used for each medication analysis separately to confirm our results.