(Source: Stanford School of Medicine) The antibiotic timeout, a term promoted by the CDC, asks doctors to take some time 48-72 hours after a patient has started a first course of antibiotics to re-evaluate the prescription, using clinical information and laboratory data. The timeout allows doctors to think about the value of that medication, its dosage, delivery method and duration, Holubar said. It's a question of teaching the kind of approach that will become second nature to physicians in all fields. There's no lecture in this online course, either....
↧