Sugihara Toru, Kamei Jun, Yasunaga Hideo, Sasabuchi Yusuke, Fujimura Tetsuya
Department of Urology, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan.
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan.
Antibiotics (Basel). 2022 Dec 18;11(12):1840. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics11121840.
Choreito, a Japanese Kampo medicine, is used to treat Japanese female patients for the quick relief of inflammatory symptoms associated with acute cystitis. We evaluated whether Choreito is effective in reducing antibiotic use and the number of clinic visits for these patients. Females aged 18-49 years who had acute cystitis for the first time, with no history of medical insurance use within 90 days prior to their visit, and no hospitalizations within the 30 days after their first visit were identified from the JMDC Claims Database between April 2018 and March 2021. For the 30 days after their first visit, patients who were given their first antimicrobial prescriptions with or without Choreito were compared regarding (i) the number of clinic visits, (ii) total antimicrobial prescription days, and (iii) the number of antimicrobial prescriptions adjusted for their age, Charlson comorbidity index, and the COVID-19 pandemic period (after April 2020). For the 319 and 8515 patients with or without a Choreito prescription, respectively, multivariable Poisson regression analyses showed that Choreito was significantly associated with a 5% shortening of a patient's total antimicrobial prescription days (Beta, 0.950; = 0.038), whereas no significant difference was observed in the number of clinic visits and antimicrobial prescriptions ( = 0.624 and = 0.732, respectively). The prescription of Choreito in combination with antimicrobials was associated with a slight reduction in total antimicrobial use for acute cystitis among females.
柴苓汤是一种日本汉方药物,用于治疗日本女性患者,以快速缓解与急性膀胱炎相关的炎症症状。我们评估了柴苓汤在减少这些患者抗生素使用和门诊就诊次数方面是否有效。从2018年4月至2021年3月的JMDC理赔数据库中,识别出年龄在18 - 49岁之间、首次患急性膀胱炎、就诊前90天内无医疗保险使用史且首次就诊后30天内无住院史的女性。在首次就诊后的30天内,对接受了首次抗菌药物处方(无论是否使用柴苓汤)的患者,比较了以下方面:(i)门诊就诊次数;(ii)抗菌药物总处方天数;(iii)根据年龄、Charlson合并症指数和COVID - 19大流行时期(2020年4月之后)调整后的抗菌药物处方数量。对于分别有或没有柴苓汤处方的319例和8515例患者,多变量泊松回归分析显示,柴苓汤与患者抗菌药物总处方天数显著缩短5%相关(β = 0.950;P = 0.038),而在门诊就诊次数和抗菌药物处方数量方面未观察到显著差异(P分别为0.624和0.732)。柴苓汤与抗菌药物联合处方与女性急性膀胱炎患者抗菌药物总使用量的轻微减少相关。