The pressure to prescribe: Antibiotic stewardship in the outpatient setting

(Elsevier) Outpatient healthcare providers inappropriately prescribed antibiotics to 40 percent of patients in a major Veterans Affairs healthcare system, a higher figure than in previous studies examining outpatient antibiotic use, according to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology published by Elsevier.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news