Canadian study highlights broader ‘spillover’ effect of antibiotic stewardship
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 A new study by researchers in Canada suggests that an effort to reduce antibiotic prescribing in one age-group had spillover effects on a broader population. The study, published last week in JAMA Network Open, was a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial conducted among family physicians in Ontario who prescribed antibiotics for patients aged 65 and older. In that trial, investigators observed a 5% relative reduction in
