Expectations for antibiotics increase their prescribing: Causal evidence about localized impact.

Miroslav SirotaThomas RoundShyamalee SamaranayakaOlga Kostopoulou

Published in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2017)

Patients' and their parents' expectations increase antibiotics prescribing, but their effect is localized-it does not leak into the perceived probability of a bacterial infection. Interventions reducing the overprescribing of antibiotics should target also psychological factors. (PsycINFO Database Record

Keyphrases

primary care
end stage renal disease
physical activity

ejection fraction
adverse drug
chronic kidney disease

peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
depressive symptoms

mental health
social support
emergency department