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Provider misperceptions drive inappropriate antibiotic overprescribing for child diarrhea in India, finds study
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Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:Know gap and know-do gap in antibiotics prescribing for child diarrhea.
Credit: Science Advances (2025).
The study found that eliminating the knowledge gap alone would cut inappropriate antibiotic use by about 6 percentage points, whereas closing the know-do gap could reduce it by roughly 30 percentage points.
More information: Zachary Wagner et al, Investigating the know-do gap in antibiotics prescribing: Experimental evidence from India, Science Advances (2025).
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady9868 Journal information: Science Advances
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