Prescribed medications and pharmacy interventions for acute respiratory tract infections in Swiss primary care Hersberger KE et al. - Prescription rates of antibiotics for ARTI in this trial were low and patients were treated mainly with non-antibiotic symptomatic medications. Efforts to reduce antibiotic prescribing may induce higher rates of use of medications for intensive symptomatic treatment. Considerable differences between prescribed and dispensed medications were noted. [more...]
