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Introduction to Back up/Delayed Prescribing

Watch Prof. Paul Little explain the context for the importance of antibiotics and how previous antibiotics may have medicalised the illness.

Paul explains the context for the importance of antibiotics and how previous antibiotics may have medicalised the illness leading to patients believing that they NEED antibiotics to make them well.

Do antibiotics help much?

In this video Paul shows a graph demonstrating the most common reasons why patients come into clinician surgery and explains why antibiotics would not be useful to them.

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TARGET Antibiotics – Prescribing in Primary Care

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