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NEW YORK (February 24, 2021) Nearly half of women with uncomplicated urinary tract infections received the wrong antibiotics and almost three-quarters received prescriptions for longer than necessary, with inappropriately long treatment durations more common in rural areas, according to a study of private insurance claims data published today in
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for uncomplicated urinary tract infections are prevalent and come with serious patient- and society-level consequences, said Anne Mobley Butler, PhD, lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine and surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Our study findings underscore the need for antimicrobial stewardship interventions to improve outpatient antibiotic prescribing, particularly in rural settings.
2021-02-13T08:32:00+00:00
A trio of prominent diversity campaigners unpick last month’s Diamond diversity results
Below is a transcription for the hard of hearing of this week’s Newswrap podcast featuring diversity campaigners Caroline O’Neill, Andrew Roach and Marcus Ryder, hosted by Max Goldbart
Max [00:00:03] Hello and welcome to the Broadcast Newswrap. Your shorthand guide to the week’s TV news stories featuring the experts and campaigners you really should be listening to. The Diamond diversity figures were released last fortnight and were met with a chorus of frustration with disappointing slumps and plateaus for disability representation and representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic people. This week, campaigners Marcus Ryder, Caroline O’Neill and Andrew Roach join me, Max Goldbart, to analyse where the industry is going wrong and what can be done about the shortfalls. We take a deep dive into issues of intersectionality and there’s even a bit