January 07, 2015 JAMA TAKE-HOME MESSAGE The authors of this JAMA clinical synopsis examine whether antibiotics are associated with improved outcomes in patients with acute bronchitis. While antibiotic use was associated with reduced overall and nighttime cough and slight reductions in duration of cough, feeling ill, and impaired activities, patients taking antibiotics had no significant […]
Medscape Medical News Marcia Frellick May 21, 2014 Physicians are prescribing antibiotics for acute bronchitis at rates between 60% and 80%, despite guidelines and educational efforts that say the rate should be zero, according to a research letter published in the May 21 issue of JAMA. For more than 40 years, the authors note, clinical trials have shown […]
IMNG Medical Media, 2013 Oct 17, JO Ebbert Full Story: http://www.practiceupdate.com/news/3596 ’Tis the season to be coughing. The most common condition we are seeing and will be seeing in the coming months is bronchitis. Bronchitis is a self-limited inflammation of the bronchi due to upper airway infection (i.e., cough without pneumonia), which is most commonly […]