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Patients' Desire for Antibiotics Driving Prescriptions

Published on Mon Dec 09, 2019

If your practice is overprescribing antibiotics, it’s not alone. If any physician at your practice has ever felt like some patients’ demands for antibiotics is insatiable, they’re not alone. According to a recently published study, “The inconvincible patient: how clinicians perceive demand for antibiotics in the outpatient setting,” funded by the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and published in Family [...]
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