Urgent care clinics are prescribing too many unnecessary antibiotics, study says
Nearly half of patients who go to urgent care clinics seeking treatment for flu or a cold and other conditions that don’t require an antibiotic received a prescription for one anyway.
LenaSun
956d ago
NEW: Urgent care clinics are prescribing too many unnecessary antibiotics, study says. People tend to go there seeking antibiotics. But taking medicine for diseases caused by viruses--not bacteria--is bad for everyone. My story
39
With millions of patients seen at thousands of urgent care centers and retail health clinics, think of just how many antibiotics are being prescribed unnecessarily. Another reason we're in the antibiotic-resistant mess we're in. @bylenasun
Urgent care clinics are prescribing way too many unnecessary antibiotics – a dangerous practice that might keep their Yelp scores high. By @ByLenaSun on @PostHealthSci
Have it your way medicine -- “Urgent care centers are growing by leaps and bounds in this era of consumerism and people wanting everything now.”