Fifth of prescribed antibiotics are unnecessary, study finds

Family doctors accused of ‘substantial inappropriate antibiotic prescribing’

GPs are fuelling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance by wrongly giving antibiotics to one in five patients who has a cough or sore throat, a government-funded study has found.

Family doctors are displaying “substantial inappropriate antibiotic prescribing” when dealing with patients who have an infection, according to research published by Public Health England (PHE), the government’s public health advisers.

Continue reading... February 27, 2018 at 05:35AM