{"id":7969,"date":"2017-08-25T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7969"},"modified":"2017-08-25T09:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:17:20","slug":"bcbs-broad-spectrum-antibiotic-use-down-13-in-last-7-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7969","title":{"rendered":"BCBS: Broad-spectrum antibiotic use down 13% in last 7 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Brian Zimmerman for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Antibiotic use among commercially insured Americans fell by nearly 10 percent from 2010 through 2016, according to a report released Thursday by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/quality\/bcbs-broad-spectrum-antibiotic-use-down-13-in-last-7-years.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7795\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Brian Zimmerman for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Antibiotic use among commercially insured Americans fell by nearly 10 percent from 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}