Improved drug coverage under Medicare associated with increases in antibiotic use
Monday, August 9, 2010 - 15:14
in Health & Medicine
Antibiotic use appears to have increased among older adults whose prescription drug coverage improved as a result of enrolling in Medicare Part D, with the largest increases for broad-spectrum, newer and more expensive drugs, according to a report in the August 9/23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.