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Lengthy antibiotic use common in elderly

Elderly nursing home residents are often prescribed courses of antibiotics that last 10 days or more, a new Canadian study shows, which may needlessly raise the risk of drug resistance and secondary infections.A week or less of antibiotic use effectively kills most common infections, including pneumonia, researchers said."If they're receiving antibiotic treatment beyond cure, they're being exposed to those harms without additional benefit," said Dr. Nick Daneman, who worked on the new study at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto.For their study, he and his colleagues analyzed records for close to 67,000 nursing home residents treated at 630 facilities in Ontario, Canada in 2010.Just over three-quarters of the elderly residents were prescribed at least one course of antibiotics that year, although the study team didn't know the reasons for treatment. Close to 45 percent of all prescriptions were for more than seven days - often 10 or 14.The length of a given treatment cours...

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