A study of antibiotic treatment failure rates in primary care from 1991–2012 for four common infection types, which analysed almost 11 million antibiotic UK prescriptions, shows the failure rate has increased by 12% overall and continues to rise.
One-in-ten antibiotic prescriptions 'fail' in general practice
Research
1 October 2014
More than one in ten of all antibiotic treatments in the primary care setting are associated with failure, according to research recently published in the BMJ.