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    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

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    The Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making are the critical points of antibiotic decision making. Clinicians can use the Four Moments framework for all patients receiving antibiotics and whenever the need for antibiotics is being considered.

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