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The antibacterials

Posted by mjeffries on 24 Jun 2020 at 00:23 GMT

I think unnecessary use of antibiotics could be reduced if amoxicillin, azithromycin, etc. are identified as "antibacterial antibiotics." It could be explained to patients there are "antibacterial antibiotics," "antifungal antibiotics," "anti-viral antibiotics," etc. A patient could understand that a viral cold would not be treated with an anti-bacterial antibiotic. Doing so would be ineffective with only a risk of side effects. I was very pleased to see in the JAMA a Patient Page that has the different groups of antibiotics identified https://jamanetwork.com/j...

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