Systemic Steroid Stewardship in Urgent Care: Recognizing Indication Creep to Limit Avoidable Harms

Systemic Steroid Stewardship in Urgent Care: Recognizing Indication Creep to Limit Avoidable Harms

Urgent Message: Steroid overprescribing is a universal urgent care issue. While systemic steroids have several indications in which the preponderance of evidence supports their use in the urgent care setting, indication creep has led to their use outside of these scenarios resulting in significant risk for avoidable and unjustifiable adverse reactions. Citation: Hansen P. Systemic Steroid Stewardship in Urgent Care: Recognizing Indication Creep to Limit Avoidable Harms. J Urgent Care Med. 2023;18(3);29-32 Author Affiliation: Paul …

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