Antibiotics after pneumonia: Study finds overprescribing at hospital discharge

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Valerie Vaughn, M.D., M.Sc., a member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, describes findings from a study of antibiotic prescribing to patients treated for pneumonia at hospitals across Michigan. The study, performed using data from the Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium, finds two-thirds of these patients received a longer course of antibiotics than needed, and that most of these prescriptions were written at hospital discharge.

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