Consider this claim:Prescribing antibiotics for illnesses that they cannot treat is a dangerous practice that should be stopped.Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim?According to one study, physicians prescribe antibiotics for about sixty percent of patients with sore throats, although they are helpful for only ten percent of these patients.A recent White House budget request called for significant funds to be allocated to fight the problem of antibiotic resistance.Multiple studies have shown that overprescribing antibiotics can lead to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which in turn can lead to infections that are difficult or impossible to treat.Save answer

A lack of detailed record-keeping in clinics and emergency departments may be getting in the way of reducing the inappropriate use of antibiotics, a pair of new studies by a pair of University of Michigan physicians and their colleagues suggests.In one of the studies, about 10% of children and 35% of adults who got an antibiotic prescription during an office visit had no specific reason for the antibiotic in their record.The rate of this type of prescribing is especially high in adults treated seen in emergency departments and in adults seen in clinics who have Medicaid coverage or no insurance, the studies show. But the issue also occurs in children.Without information about what drove these inappropriate prescriptions, it will be even harder for clinics, hospitals and health insurers to take steps to ensure that antibiotics are prescribed only when they're really needed, the researchers say.Overuse and misuse of antibiotics raise the risk that bacteria will evolve to resist the drugs and make them less useful for everyone. Inappropriately prescribed antibiotics may also end up doing more harm than good to patients.When clinicians don't record why they are prescribing antibiotics, it makes it difficult to estimate how many of those prescriptions are truly inappropriate, and to focus on reducing inappropriate prescribing." Joseph Ladines-Lim, M.D., Ph.D., first author of both of the new studies and combined internal medicine/pediatrics resident at Michigan Medicine, U-M's academic medical center"Our studies help contextualize the estimates of inappropriate prescribing that have been published previously," he added. "Those estimates don't distinguish between antibiotic prescriptions that are considered inappropriate due to inadequate coding and antibiotic prescriptions truly prescribed for a condition that they can't treat."Ladines-Lim worked with U-M pediatrician and health care researcher Kao-Ping Chua, M.D., Ph.D., on the new studies. The one on outpatient prescribing by insurance status is in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and the one on trends in emergency department prescribing is in Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology.

What is a likely result of antibiotic resistance awareness? A. improved health care in developing countries B. viral disease will be likely to spread C. increased research to discover new drugs D. both A and C

What do you think about the global issue of antibiotic resistance and the role of healthcare providers in combating this problem?

Which one thing is not true about antibiotics?AThe term “antibiotic” was coined by Selman Waksman in 1942BFirst antibiotic was discovered by Alexander FlemmingCEach antibiotic is effective only against one particular kind of germDSome persons can be allergic to a particular antibiotic

Which of the following statements is an example of patient noncompliance that accelarates resistance to antimicrobial drugs?ANSWERA person obtains antimicrobial drugs without prescription in a developing country.A doctor picks up a resistant strain on her scrubs and transfers it to an immunocompromised patient.A doctor inappropriately prescribes antibiotics to treat a patient suffering from a cold.A patient stops taking his amoxicillin that he was prescribed for strep throat because he felt better after 5 of 10 doses.