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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Suppressing Antibiotic Overprescribing in Urgent Care Clinics

By David Wild

Urgent care clinicians, by far the most common culprits for antibiotic overprescribing, can be successfully encouraged to prescribe these agents more appropriately, according to a presentation at the IDWeek 2020 Virtual meeting (abstract 16). 

After Intermountain Healthcare rolled out a combination of stewardship tools—from clinician and patient education to electronic dashboards and social media initiatives—the likelihood of antibiotic prescribing for respiratory