Patients insist on antibiotics for sinusitis? Here is a good reason to say "no".
Stop prescribing antibiotics for adults with a clinical diagnosis of acute sinusitis, unless the patient has severe symptoms. Antibiotics have little if any positive effects on the severity and duration of symptoms, and they cause adverse effects and create unnecessary expense.
Schumann
Sarah-Anne
SA
Department of Family Medicine, The University of Chicago, IL, USA.
Hickner
John
J
D000208:Acute Disease; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005194:Family Practice / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000188:drug therapy
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents