Respiratory tract infection Rx habits highlighted.(Infectious Diseases)

From: Pediatric News | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

SAN FRANCISCO -- Internists prescribed the most broad-spectrum antibiotics and pediatricians the most narrow-spectrum antibiotics for respiratory tract infections in a national managed care population, Katie J. Suda, Pharm. D., reported in a poster presentation at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

"Looking at a managed care population, a majority of them aren't going to have ten different diseases. In general, you don't need broad-spectrum therapy right off the bat," said Dr. Suds of the University of Tennessee, Memphis.

She and ...

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