Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition.
Nearly three-fourths of prescribed antibiotics for patients 65 years of age or older, and two-thirds of all antibiotics prescribed to Black patients, were found to be inappropriate, according to data presented at the ECCMID 2022 by the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (abstract 01758).
A study led by Eric Young, PharmD, of the University of Texas Health Science Center, in San