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Antibiotics Prescribed as Often During Telemedicine Appointments as During Face-to-Face Examinations
May 27, 2015
Published in: JAMA Internal Medicine, v. 175, no. 7, July 2015, p. 1234-1235. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2024
Posted on RAND.org on March 28, 2017
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Patterns of antibiotic prescribing behavior show that both telemedicine and office-based clinicians over-prescribed antibiotics to treat acute respiratory infections, but telemedicine clinicians tended to prescribe broad-spectrum antibiotics.
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