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‘Antibiotic prescribing is reduced following COVID-19 restrictions in Australia.’
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Analyses of national claims data revealed that COVID-19 restrictions in Australia were associated with substantial reductions in community dispensing of antibiotics primarily used to treat respiratory infections, but antibiotics for non-respiratory infections were unchanged.The issue is that antibiotics should rarely be prescribed for common viral respiratory infections in the first place.
These big reductions show how low general practitioners’ antibiotic prescribing can go if guidelines are followed more closely.
Source-Medindia