Antibiotic Use Increases Under Medicare Part D, Study Finds
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Study published in AMA's Archives of Internal Medicine shows evidence of increased and sometimes inappropriate antibiotics use since the start of Medicare's prescription drug program.
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