STAT April 19, 2024
Although U.S. regulators approved several new antibiotics for combating hard-to-treat bacteria during a recent five-year period, hospital doctors instead gave older, generic remedies to more than 40% of patients battling those stubborn pathogens, according to a new analysis.
Moreover, 80% of the time these older antibiotics were already known to be highly toxic or ineffective, according to the analysis. And one-third of the hospitals where data were collected never used any of the new antibiotics. Notably, those hospitals tended to be smaller institutions located in rural...
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