Becker's Healthcare September 6, 2024
A new study by researchers at Salt Lake City-based University of Utah School of Medicine set out to highlight the environmental costs that come with unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions in outpatient settings.
The findings were published Sept. 4 in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Hospital Epidemiology.
The researchers used Environmental Protection Agency data to calculate the amount of waste produced from the packaging of antibiotic prescriptions, paper bags, inserts and plastic prescription bottles. The study focused on the unnecessary outpatient prescriptions in 2014 and 2015, estimated at 28%, and applied the percentage to the...
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