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antibiotic prescribing
The following articles have the tag antibiotic prescribing
Individual patients at risk of resistance after antibiotic script
ROUTINE antibiotic use not only contributes to community-wide antibiotic resistance, it also results in resistance to bacteria at an individual patient level. A systematic review of prescribing in primary care found that patients given antibiotics were more than twice as likely to experience subsequent urinary tract and respiratory infections caused by resistant pathogens. And this resistance, which was more common with an increased number and duration of courses, could often last up to a year. The UK researchers, themselves GPs, suggested clinicians were aware of the problem of antibiotic resistance but considered it a population-level issue that ...
Individual patients at risk of resistance after antibiotic script
ROUTINE antibiotic use not only contributes to community-wide antibiotic resistance, it also results in resistance to bacteria at an individual patient level. A systematic review of prescribing in primary care found that patients given antibiotics were more than twice as likely to experience subsequent urinary tract and respiratory infections caused by resistant pathogens. And this resistance, which was more common with an increased number and duration of courses, could often last up to a year. The UK researchers, themselves GPs, suggested clinicians were aware of the problem of antibiotic resistance but considered it a population-level issue that did not ...