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Troubling Trend in Antibiotic Prescriptions in the Outpatient Setting
March 08, 2018
ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 8 -- The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America issued the following news release:

Antibiotics continue to be prescribed at alarming rates in outpatient settings, despite increased national attention to curtail inappropriate use of these drugs, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. The findings suggest that current initiatives to improve th . . .

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