Health system sees nearly 80% drop in antibiotics for RTIs amid pandemic
A “marked decrease” in respiratory virus detections correlated with a 79% reduction in ambulatory antibiotic prescribing rates for respiratory tract infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers of a pre-post study wrote. The trend was observed at University of Wisconsin (UW) Health, an academic health care system with more than 80 ambulatory sites and 7,000,000 ambulatory