Antibiotics are prescribed incorrectly to ailing nursing home residents up to 75 percent of the time, the nation’s public health watchdog says.
The reasons vary -- wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong duration or just unnecessarily -- but the consequences are scary, warns the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overused antibiotics over time lose their effectiveness against the infections they were designed to treat. Some already have. And some antibiotics actually cause life-threatening illnesses on their own.
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