Riesgo y beneficio del uso de antibióticos en Infección aguda respiratoria : Estudio de Cohortes

CONCLUSIONS Compared with patients with ARI who were not treated with antibiotics,
patients who were treated with antibiotics were not at increased risk of
severe adverse drug events and had a small decreased risk of pneumonia hospitalization.
This small benefi t from antibiotics for a common ambulatory diagnosis
creates persistent tension; at the societal level, physicians are compelled to reduce
antibiotic prescribing, thus minimizing future resistance, whereas at the encounter
level, they are compelled to optimize the benefi t-risk balance for that patient.

En Ann of Fam. Med