Initially, I declined to offer an antibiotic, writing a prescription for antitussive therapy instead. When the patient persisted in wanting an antibiotic, the purist in me wanted to reiterate that an ...

Even though well-established guidelines stating the antibiotic prescribing rate for acute bronchitis should be zero, the prescribing rate was about 70 percent from 1996-2010, according to a study ...

A quality measure reduced antibiotic use for patients with acute bronchitis but led to use of an alternative diagnosis, offsetting most of the observed improvement. To determine whether diagnostic ...

LONDON (AP) _ An antibiotic commonly given for acute bronchitis is no better than low-dose vitamin C at treating the coughing attacks, a new study has found. Millions of people visit doctors every ...

When an otherwise healthy adult develops acute bronchitis, the rule is still to withhold antibiotics since more than 90% of cases are viral. 9 Exceptions include infection with Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An antibiotic stewardship intervention decreased inappropriate prescribing for patients with bronchitis and ...

About one in 20 people experience bronchitis every year, despite it being a respiratory infection no one wants. Its most common symptoms include wheezing, chest tightness, low fever, fatigue, ...

A man who looks older than his 43 years walks into the clinic. A cigarette smoker, he made a same-day appointment because of a 5-day history of cough. The cough was initially dry and mild, but upon ...