The pressure to prescribe: Antibiotic stewardship in the outpatient setting
Arlington, Va., April 16, 2019 – 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…
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