American College of Physicians: Shorten antibiotic duration for these 4 bacterial infections

(By Erica Carbajal for Becker’s Hospital Review)

In an effort to combat antibiotic resistance, the American College of Physicians outlined best practices to shorten the duration of antibiotic prescriptions for several common bacterial infections in a report published April 6 in Annals of Internal Medicine.  Continue reading the article here…

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