Interventions based on prudent choice guidelines can reduce antibiotic overuse in safety net hospitals
CONCLUSIONS A statewide pay-for-work intervention based on a set of guidelines called Choosing Wisely reduced the number of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory infections by an average of 18 percentage points, from 43% to 25% in two large Los Angeles safety regions. in network hospitals. BACKGROUND About 25–50% of all antibiotic prescriptions in the…