Most patients are prescribed antibiotics, despite concerns about growing antibiotic resistance and substantial evidence that antibiotics are ineffective for treating bronchitis. These authors ...

Background Clinicians prescribe antibiotics to over 65% of adults with acute bronchitis despite guidelines stating that antibiotics are not indicated. Methods To identify and understand primary ...

Antibiotics do not usually ... in roughly one-third of those with acute bronchitis. It usually lasts for a few days at the beginning of the infection. Most cases of bronchitis will clear on ...

Analysis of the intervention, implemented at 49 urgent care clinics, found the biggest reductions among clinicians who were ...

Antibiotics are recommended only if ... than for those who did not have these infections. One of the most common complications of bronchitis is a secondary pneumonia which is most commonly bacterial.