Fifth of prescribed antibiotics are unnecessary, study finds Family doctors accused of ‘substantial inappropriate antibiotic prescribing’
GPs are fuelling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance by wrongly giving antibiotics to one in five patients who has a cough or sore throat, a government-funded study has found.
Family doctors are displaying “substantial inappropriate antibiotic prescribing” when dealing with patients who have an infection, according to research published by Public Health England (PHE), the government’s public health advisers. Continue reading... The Guardian
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GPs are fuelling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance by wrongly giving antibiotics to one in five patients who has a cough or sore throat, a government-funded study has found.
Family doctors are displaying “substantial inappropriate antibiotic prescribing” when dealing with patients who have an infection, according to research published by Public Health England (PHE), the government’s public health advisers. Continue reading... The Guardian
See also:
- Appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in English primary care Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
- Dont blame GPs for high rates of antibiotic use society must play its part says RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners
- GPs write 20,000 unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions per day, officials suggest GPonline
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