{"id":30075,"date":"2018-02-27T01:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T00:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/27\/fifth-of-prescribed-antibiotics-are-unnecessary-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T01:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T00:05:29","slug":"fifth-of-prescribed-antibiotics-are-unnecessary-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=30075","title":{"rendered":"Fifth of prescribed antibiotics are unnecessary, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family doctors accused of \u2018substantial inappropriate antibiotic prescribing\u2019GPs are fuelling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance by wrongly giving antibiotics to one in five patients who has a cough or sore throat, a government-funded study has found.Family doctors are displaying \u201csubstantial inappropriate antibiotic prescribing\u201d when dealing with patients who have an infection, according to research published by Public Health England (PHE), the government\u2019s public health advisers. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/feb\/27\/fifth-of-prescribed-antibiotics-are-unnecessary-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\">Fifth of prescribed antibiotics are unnecessary, study finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family doctors accused of \u2018substantial inappropriate antibiotic prescribing\u2019GPs are fuelling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance by wrongly giving antibiotics to one in five patients who has a cough or sore throat, a government-funded study has found.Family doctors are displaying \u201csubstantial inappropriate antibiotic prescribing\u201d when dealing with patients who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}