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Discrepancies Between Clinical Prescribing Patterns Versus Literature Recommendations for Antibiotic Usage in Facial Fractures
By JACQUELINE TUCKER, BS1, MADISON OXFORD, BA1, JESSYKA G. LIGHTHALL, MD, FACS2
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he first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered in the 1920s. Throughout the next several decades antibiotic discovery was exponential. This led to an overall reduction in worldwide morbidity and mortality due to bacterial infections. However, the eventual overuse of these newly discovered antibiotics gave birth to antibiotic resistance. With increasing resistance, medication options for resistant infections became limited. To counter the increase in antibiotic resistance, antibiotic stewardship programs began to emerge at different hospitals and treatment centers. Antibiotic stewardship is the effort to measure and improve how antibiotics are prescribed by physicians.1
1 The Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. 2 Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA. 12 Spring2022 Spring 2022Central Central PA PA Medicine Medicine
