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Dr. Lawrence Kaplan Provides Perspective for Medscape Article on Study about Variability in Antimicrobial Prescribing, Patient Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes

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Lawrence Kaplan, MD, FACP, Associate Dean of Interprofessional Education and Interim Section Chief of General Internal Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, provided perspective for a Medscape article about a multicenter study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The study found that variability in antimicrobial prescribing among hospital-based physicians is not associated with patient characteristics or clinical outcomes. Dr. Kaplan was not involved in the study.