The effect of absent or deferred antibiotic treatment on complications of common infections in primary care.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to compare the incidence rate for complications to upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs), including acute bronchitis and lower urinary tract infections (UTIs), for those treated with antibiotics compared to those who were not.

Methods: This was a population-based retrospective cohort study in Sweden. Patients diagnosed with otitis, pharyngotonsillitis, sinusitis, acute bronchitis, and lower UTI in primary care between 2014 and 2020 were included.

Assessing Safety of Direct Thrombin Inhibitors, Direct Factor Xa Inhibitors and Vitamin K Antagonists in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Nation-Wide Propensity Score Matched Cohort from Sweden.

Purpose: To evaluate associations between first-time use of direct oral anticoagulants or vitamin K antagonists and bleeding risk or mortality in the elderly with atrial fibrillation in a real-world setting in Sweden.

Patients And Methods: The study population comprises first-time users, above age 60, of dabigatran, apixaban, rivaroxaban, or warfarin, with first atrial fibrillation occurrence within 6 months before dispensing (2012-2016). Outcomes were gastrointestinal, any, or intracranial bleeding, and mortality.

Pediatric use of prescribed melatonin in Sweden 2006-2017: a register based study.

Sleep disturbances are common in the pediatric population and should primarily be treated non-pharmacologically. Most medicines for sleep disturbances are not approved for pediatric use and data on long-term safety is scarce. In Sweden, melatonin is classified as a prescription medicine.

Public Health Agency of Sweden's Brief Report: Pregnant and postpartum women with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in intensive care in Sweden.

The Public Health Agency of Sweden has analyzed how many pregnant and postpartum women with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection have been treated in intensive care units (ICU) in Sweden between 19 March and 20 April 2020 compared with non-pregnant women of similar age. Cases were identified in a special reporting module within the Swedish Intensive Care Registry (SIR). Fifty-three women aged 20-45 years with SARS-CoV-2 were reported in SIR, and 13 of these women were either pregnant or postpartum (<1 week).

Drug use and torsades de pointes cardiac arrhythmias in Sweden: a nationwide register-based cohort study.

Objective: To study the occurrence of torsades de pointes (TdP) ventricular tachycardia in relation to use of drugs labelled with TdP risk, using two nationwide Swedish registers.

Design: Prospective register-based cohort study.

Setting: Entire Sweden.

Antidepressants and antipsychotics classified with torsades de pointes arrhythmia risk and mortality in older adults - a Swedish nationwide study.

Aim: The aim of the study was to examine mortality risk associated with use of antidepressants and antipsychotics classified with torsades de pointes (TdP) risk in elderly.

Methods: A matched case-control register study was conducted in people 65 years and older dying outside hospital from 2008-2013 (n = 286,092) and matched controls (n = 1,430,460). The association between prescription of antidepressants and antipsychotics with various TdP risk according to CredibleMeds (www.