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With the advent of the Antibiotic Stewardship Program, signed into law by President Barak Obama in 2014, antibiotic use will fall under increasing scrutiny. The interdisciplinary health care team will increasingly collaborate to reduce, and ideally eliminate, irrational and unnecessary use of antibiotics. This includes incorrectly using antibiotics to treat viral infections, unnecessarily long courses of antibiotic therapy and use of potentially dangerous antibiotics when safer agents are available.
Source: Geriatric Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Pharmacy Column Source Type: research