Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on prescription patterns and antibiotic use: Insights from three military health facilities.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health systems globally and there are suggestions it impacted antibiotics prescribing patterns in clinical practice.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prescribing patterns in three Nigerian military health facilities and investigate the factors associated with antibiotic prescriptions.

Methods: This was a two-year cross-sectional retrospective study.