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Duration of Outpatient Antibiotic Therapy for Common Outpatient Infections, 2017

Published:2020-09-16 Issue:10 Volume:72 Page:e663-e666
ISSN:1058-4838
Container-title:Clinical Infectious Diseases
language:en
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Author:

King Laura M¹^ORCID,Hersh Adam L²,Hicks Lauri A¹,Fleming-Dutra Katherine E¹

Affiliation:

1. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Abstract

Abstract Our objective was to describe the duration of antibiotic therapy for the management of common outpatient conditions. The median duration of antibiotic courses for most common conditions, except for acute cystitis, was 10 days, in many cases exceeding guideline-recommended durations.

Funder

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical)

Link

http://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1404/34032454/ciaa1404.pdf

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