Effect of information on reducing inappropriate expectations and requests for antibiotics.
People often expect antibiotics when they are clinically inappropriate (e.g., for viral infections). This contributes significantly to physicians' decisions to prescribe antibiotics when they are clinically inappropriate, causing harm to the individual and to society. In two pre‐registered studies e...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 112; no. 3; pp. 804 - 828 |
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