Antibiotic Resistance

Pediatrician approach can influence parental agreement with treatment

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 30th, 2004

A new University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) study shows how communication techniques between a doctor and a parent can result in increased parent satisfaction with the treatment plan for their child's upper respiratory illness and avoid unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions.

The findings, presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting in San Francisco, concluded that positively focusing on what can be done to make a child feel better, rather than on what is not needed (antibiotics), can increase a parent's acceptance of nonantibiotic treatment and satisfaction with care.

"Oftentimes, the dynamics of a doctor-parent interaction...

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