Influence of the NIH Consensus Conference on Helicobacter Pylori on Physician Prescribing Among a Medicaid Population

Abstract

Two years after the highly publicized NIH conference on the eradication of Helicobacter pylori, antimicrobial agents were not widely prescribed among the Pennsylvania Medicaid population. In treating this underserved population, physicians do not appear to be using recommendations developed by an NIH expert panel based on recent scientific advances.