Antimicrobial use in hospitals appears to be common

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 11:01 in Health & Medicine

A one-day prevalence survey of 183 hospitals found that approximately 50 percent of hospitalized patients included in the survey were receiving antimicrobial drugs, and that about half of these patients were receiving 2 or more antimicrobial drugs. Most antimicrobial use was for infection treatment.

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