Family practice
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Multicenter Study
Changes in early-career family physicians' antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infection and acute bronchitis: a multicentre longitudinal study.
Inappropriate antibiotic prescription and subsequent antibacterial resistance are major threats to health worldwide. ⋯ Early-career experience/training failed to produce rational antibiotic prescribing for URTI and acute bronchitis/bronchiolitis. Our findings suggest that prescribing interventions could target the registrar-supervisor dyad.