HOUSTON: Up to 75% of antibiotics prescriptions given to nursing home residents are unnecessary or incorrectly prescribed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims.
A new report cites CDC statistics indicating a majority of nursing home residents receive one or more courses of antibiotics each year to treat common conditions such as urinary tract infections, pneumonia and cellulitis. But up to 75% of those prescriptions are either unnecessarily prescribed, or for the wrong drug, dose or duration.