Clinics prescribe too many antibiotics, study finds

Urgent care centers and retail clinics are five times more likely to prescribe antibiotics during a visit than medical offices and nearly half of prescriptions at urgent care are given to patients that don ’t need them, a new study found. The research, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of Utah and The Pew Charitable Trusts and published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, found that almost half of patients - 45.7 percent - seeking treatment for upper…
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