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