Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care.

By S. Arnold, Sharon E. Straus. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2005

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Antimicrobial resistance: risk associated with antibiotic overuse and initiatives to reduce the problem (2014, background): “If respiratory tract infections are mostly self-limiting, why do we treat between 52% and 100% of the cases, with a median of 88%, with antibiotics? [Ashworth et al. 2005].”
Defining knowledge translation (2009, background): “By contrast, antibiotics are overprescribed in children with upper respiratory tract symptoms.(9) A synthesis of 14 studies showed that many patients (26%–95%) were dissatisfied with the information they received from their physicians.”