Shifting medical guidelines: Compliance and spillover effects for revised antibiotic recommendations

Benjamin A. Lyons, Vittorio Merola and Jason Reifler

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 255, issue C

Abstract: Experts have recently argued that guidelines to take the full course of antibiotics are due for revision, instead recommending that patients stop when they feel better. It is unknown how communicating revised guidelines from medical experts about how long to take a course of antibiotics will affect beliefs, behavior, and trust in guidelines more generally. Objective. This study seeks to understand how revisions to long standing advice impacts the beliefs, behavior, and trust toward such guidelines from medical experts.

Keywords: Antibiotics; Public health campaigns; Consensus; Expertise; Credibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112943

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