Reducing demand for antibiotic prescriptions: evidence from an online survey of the general public on the interaction between preferences, beliefs and information, United Kingdom, 2015.
CONCLUSION: Information campaigns to reduce AMR may risk a paradoxical consequence of actually increasing public demand for antibiotics. Public antibiotic stewardship campaigns should be tested on a small scale before wider adoption.
PMID: 29945699 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Euro Surveill - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Roope LSJ, Tonkin-Crine S, Butler CC, Crook D, Peto T, Peters M, Walker AS, Wordsworth S Tags: Euro Surveill Source Type: research
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