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Why Is Outpatient Antibiotic Over-prescribing Rampant?
Despite decades of research confirming that antibiotics are over-prescribed, and this fact contributes to the significant problem of antibiotic resistance, nearly half of the prescriptions a new written without infection diagnosis, suggests study of over a half million prescriptions.