Patients, Prescribers, and Institutional Factors Associated with Inappropriate Use of Acid Suppressive Therapy in Medical Wards: An Experience of a Single-Center in Saudi Arabia.

Purpose: To identify factors associated with inappropriate acid-suppressive therapy (AST) use in hospitalized medical ward patients.

Patients And Methods: This was a combined retrospective cohort study reviewing the electronic medical records of medical ward in a secondary university hospital between January 2018 and July 2019, in addition to prescriber surveys about AST knowledge. We included adult patients (≥18 years old) admitted to the medical ward who received at least one dose of AST during their hospitalization.