CDC Research Shows Prescribing Rates for Children Still Too High

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Nearly 60 percent of the antibiotics prescribed in the office setting in 2007-2008 were for five acute respiratory infections, most episodes of which do not require antibiotic treatment, according to recent research from the CDC.

Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on antibiotics.

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