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Improving Antibiotic Prescribing in Hospitals Can Make Health Care Safer - Press Release

A new Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that clinicians in some hospitals prescribe three times as many antibiotics than clinicians in other hospitals, even though patients were receiving care in similar areas of each hospital.

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CDC@CDCgov Mar 4, 2014Published 13:00 UTCSignal Time 78Trust Score
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A new Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that clinicians in some hospitals prescribe three times as many antibiotics than clinicians in other hospitals, even though patients were receiving care in similar areas of each hospital.

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