From the Royal Society of Medicine in the UK we find that new research indicates that efforts to reduce antibiotic resistance led to a decrease in the prescribing of antibiotics by doctors yet an increase in hospitalizations for respiratory infections like pneumonia.
In analyses of more than 15.5 million hospitalizations and 5.5 million outpatient visits per year over 8 years, this trend was particularly strong between 1998 and 2002.
The study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, examined the relationship between antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis and cough with hospital admissions for respiratory infections in the USA.
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