Abstract:BackgroundAcute upper respiratory tract infections (URI) result in significant outpatient antimicrobial prescriptions and are targets for antimicrobial stewardship efforts given they are often of viral origin. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of educational antimicrobial stewardship initiatives on the proportion of URI treated with antibiotics in a large, ambulatory setting that included Internal Medicine and Family Medicine clinics.MethodsThis quasi-experimental pre–post intervention study evaluated a… Show more
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