Antibiotic Overuse

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Antibiotic Overuse
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• The crisis of antibiotic misuse
• Antibiotic misuse is a significant public health
  concern and economic burden worldwide. Misuse
  relates both to overuse when treating a
  non-bacterial disease

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• such as a viral infection for which antibiotics
  are ineffective, and to underuse in cases of
  bacterial disease for which antibiotic treatment
  was delayed or not given and would have benefited
  the patient.
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• Antibiotic overuse is a common phenomenon, with
  global overuse rate estimated at 40-70. For
  example, according to the US Centers for Disease
  Control and Prevention (CDC).

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• over 80 million antibiotic prescriptions are
  given in the US annually at the outpatient
  setting to treat viral infections.

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• for which they are ineffective and inappropriate.
  Over-prescription of unnecessary antibiotics may
  cause adverse events such as allergic reactions,
  antibiotic-associated diarrhea, intestinal yeast
  infection, etc.

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• These preventable adverse events negatively
  impact patient care and are typically associated
  with prolonged hospital stay.

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• Antibiotic overuse is also driving the emergence
  of multi-drug resistant bacteriaone of the
  biggest healthcare problems of our time.

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• Antibiotic underuse may lead to prolonged disease
  duration and increased rate of disease-related
  complications, both of which may be avoided with
  prompt treatment of the bacterial infection.

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• Underuse is fairly common. For example, up to 15
  of adult patients hospitalized for bacterial
  pneumonia in the US receive delayed or no
  antibiotic treatments even though early treatment
  of bacterial pneumonia is known to save lives and
  reduce complications.