Patients with sinusitis often get unnecessary antibiotics

A Mayo Clinic study showed that more than 80% of patients who did not meet prescribing criteria for acute sinusitis were unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics, revealing a gap in adherence to treatment guidelines.The researchers found that clinicians often relied solely on a 10-day symptom duration to justify prescriptions, ignoring evidence that viral infections — which cannot be treated by

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