delaying antibiotics for patients with upper respiratory or ear infections

November 2006

More physicians are withholding or delaying antibiotics for patients with upper respiratory or ear infections.

Most are viral or are self-limiting anyway.

Surprisingly, delaying antibiotics does NOT increase the chance that patients will return for another visit.

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