Influenza-related antibiotic use in Ontario dropped 64 per cent in the seven years after the province adopted a universal flu shot program, the latest instalment of an evaluation of the program revealed Thursday.
The study, by researchers from Toronto and Vancouver, looked at rates of antibiotics prescribed for respiratory infections from 1997 to 2007.
They found Ontario rates dropped to 6.4 per 1,000 people from 17.9 per 1,000 people after the program was rolled out in 2000. In the rest of Canada, the rates remained static over that period.
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