Dr. Sydney Burwell, Dean of Harvard Medical School 1956

My students are dismayed when I say to them "Half of what you are taught as medical students will in 10 years have been shown to be wrong.
And the trouble is, none of your teachers know which half."



Friday, January 31, 2014

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Inappropriate use of antibiotics in ERs remains high for adults
The researchers found that antibiotics were prescribed in 61 percent of the 126 million visits for ARTI. From 2001 to 2010, there was a decrease in antibiotic utilization among patients aged < 5 years presenting with antibiotic-inappropriate ARTI (rate ratio [RR], 0.94; confidence interval [CI], 0.88 to 1.00) and among patients aged 5 to 19 years (RR, 0.89; CI, 0.85 to 0.94). Among adult patients aged 20 to 64 years, utilization remained stable for antibiotic-inappropriate ARTI (RR, 0.99; CI, 0.97 to 1.01). MedicalXpress
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