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Antibiotic Stewardship Must Overcome Deeply Held Dogma

Shorter drug courses run counter to established practice

Antibiotic therapy is steeped in dogma from case-series studies conducted in the 1940s and 1950s, which generated “low-quality” but persistent evidence before the era of widespread clinical trials, Emily Spivak, MD, said at the 2023 conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.