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Antibiotics and respiratory infections: are patients more satisfied when expectations are met?

April 26, 2017antibiotics expectations infections Met Patients respiratory satisfied

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Antibiotics and respiratory infections: are patients more satisfied when expectations are met?

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Background. Antibiotics arc frequently prescribed for respiratory infections, even though most of these infections are viral. To understand why physicians do so, we studied patients’ and physicians’ expectations for antibiotics and the effects of the patient-physician interaction on patient satisfaction.