Study Cites Urgent Care Clinics for Inappropriate Prescribing

Urgent care visits often linked to inappropriate prescribing

Urgent care visits are often associated with inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics, glucocorticoids, and opioids, according to a research letter published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Study Cites Urgent Care Clinics for Inappropriate Prescribing

(MedPage Today) -- Urgent care clinics often inappropriately prescribed antibiotics, glucocorticoids, and opioids for common conditions, found a cross-sectional study involving more than 22 million U.S. patient visits from 2018 to 2022. For antibiotics...

Inappropriate Prescriptions for Antibiotics, Glucocorticoids and Opioids Common at Urgent Cares

Michigan Medicine researchers found that urgent care centers fill prescriptions despite being "never appropriate" or "generally inappropriate" given the patients' diagnoses.