💊 If antibiotic courses tend to be longer (and thus risker) than necessary, whose responsibility is it to shorten them?
🏥 I argue it's not just doctors that have duties to minimize and shorten antibiotic courses. Why? Because antibiotic prescriptions are influenced by events that occur both before and after a doctor decides whether to order an antibiotic.
📄 Now in The American Journal of Bioethics: https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2709547
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The Patient and Pharmacy Sides Of “Shorter is Better” Antibiotic Stewardship
