Competition among physicians and retail clinics drives higher antiobiotic prescribing rate, particularly in wealthy zip codes

Competition among doctors’ offices, urgent care centers and retail medical clinics in wealthy areas of the U.S. often leads to an increase in the number of antibiotic prescriptions written per person, a team of researchers in the United States has found.



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