{"id":972,"date":"2015-10-19T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=972"},"modified":"2015-10-19T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:51:28","slug":"nursing-homes-residents-face-health-risks-from-antibiotics-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Homes\u2019 Residents Face Health Risks From Antibiotics\u2019 Misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Lisa Gillespie, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Antibiotics are prescribed incorrectly to ailing nursing home residents up to 75 percent of the time, the nation\u2019s public health watchdog says.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons vary \u2014 wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong duration or just unnecessarily \u2013 but the consequences are scary, warns the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2015\/p0915-nursing-home-antibiotics.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.\u00a0 Overused antibiotics over time lose their effectiveness against the infections they were designed to treat. Some already have. And some antibiotics actually cause life-threatening illnesses on their own. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/nursing-homes-residents-face-health-risks-from-antibiotics-misuse\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=22949522&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_ll52W9MrnpDH8mw7dER6ev__cVrrJUwHynq8dKJqSoWaAkNWimY5LBZeilkqwH_dUZgaUdJb1HrSZ_tMuVDBE3O0n-w&amp;_hsmi=22949522\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\r\n on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Lisa Gillespie, Kaiser Health News) Antibiotics are prescribed incorrectly to ailing nursing home residents up to 75 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}