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Practice Guideline - Antibiotic Use

  1. Restrict antibiotics to patients with bacterial infections.
  2. Choose the narrowest spectrum antibiotic possible as recommended by Iowa Antibiotic Resistance Task Force.
  3. Mercy Clinics endorses the recommendations by the CDC / AAP to promote judicious antibiotic use.
  4. Patients should be educated regarding proper use of antibiotics.