Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing still rampant
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Curbing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing: What Works?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has campaigned to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for more than 20 years, yet antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory tract infections, which generally do not require antibiotic treatment, have decreased only modestly for children and not at all for adults.1,2 Physicians are aware of the problem of resistance to antibiotics, but ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pharmacy Today
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1042-0991
DOI: 10.1016/j.ptdy.2019.03.013