Provider misperceptions drive inappropriate antibiotic overprescribing for child diarrhea in India, finds study

Researchers from USC and Duke report in Science Advances that the persistent “know-do gap”—where clinicians know guidelines but practice differently—is the primary driver of antibiotic overprescribing for pediatric diarrhea in India’s private sector, not lack of knowledge, point-of-sale profits, or stockouts of clinically recommended treatments such as oral rehydration salts (ORS…