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Antibiotic Duration Recommendations
Antibiotics save lives, but too many antibiotics can also shorten them. With increasing evidence that the rate of acute kidney injury, Clostridioides difficile, and subsequent multidrug resistant infections increase with every additional day of antimicrobial therapy it is essential that correct antibiotic duration be given in addition to the correct antibiotic.
Current guidance on appropriate antibiotic duration for common, uncomplicated infections in adults.