Patient Adherence to Medical Recommendations During a Pandemic in Southern Israel

609,823 primary care clinic visits in Southern Israel were analyzed to assess adherence to diagnostic tests and antibiotic prescriptions during a pandemic. The dataset was created by Anat Reiner-Benaim and last updated in March 2026. It likely contains patient and visit characteristics used in multivariate modeling to study adherence outcomes.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the impact of social restrictions and lockdowns on patient adherence based on pandemic period comparisons.
• Studying adherence differences between diagnostic tests (throat culture, chest X-ray, CBC) and antibiotic types (penicillin, cephalosporins, macrolides).
• Investigating the association between clinic type (rural) and visit modality (phone call) with adherence outcomes.
• Modeling patient adherence to acute infection management strategies based on multivariate analysis of patient and visit characteristics.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 609,823 clinic visits, providing a substantial sample size.
• Analysis compares adherence outcomes across pandemic, pre-pandemic, and post-pandemic periods.
• Multivariate modeling was used to study the impact of the pandemic period on adherence.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to Southern Israel.

Provenance

Source

Anat Reiner-Benaim

Collection Method

Likely gathered from clinic visit records in Southern Israel.

Time Range

Pandemic period and preceding and succeeding periods.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 17:36:14; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern Israel