Abstracts in Urgent Care: October, 2015

SEAN M. McNEELEY, MD Differentiate Bacterial from Viral to Decrease Unneeded Antibiotic Prescriptions Key point: The overprescribing of antibiotics is still an issue. Citation: Jones BE, Sauer B, Jones MM, et al. Variation in outpatient antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections in the veteran population: a cross-sectional study. Ann Intern Med. 2015;163:73–80. Concerns over the amount of antibiotic prescriptions continues. (See also “Delayed Prescribing of Antibiotics for Respiratory Tract Infections” in our September 2015 issue: http://www.jucm. …

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