For many years now, health authorities around the world have been trying to reduce the overuse of antibiotics in cases where they're not strictly needed, but a new study shows the message still isn't getting through – even within the medical commun
There are a number of reasons why a doctor might inappropriately prescribe an unnecessary antibiotic, the team says.have shown physicians may feel a need to meet their patient's expectations, or feel that the public health argument to not prescribe antibiotics does not translate to the bedside.
"Overwhelmingly, clinicians who indicated they would prescribe antibiotics estimated that the patient had a high probability of having a UTI, although the case details did not support this diagnosis," the researchers"We suspect that many clinicians in our sample were not aware of what constitutes UTI symptoms or were not aware that symptoms are required to substantiate a UTI diagnosis.
But clinicians' attitudes and cognitive characteristics also play a part, the researchers say, with doctors who function as"Medical maximizers favor errors of commission over errors of omission, preferring to treat even when treatment has uncertain value and may introduce a chance of harm,"For this reason, the researchers think future interventions designed to discourage over-prescription of antibiotics might benefit from targeting the mindset of medical maximizers more...
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