Treating viral infections with antibiotics is one of the biggest drivers of increasing antimicrobial resistance. But pharmacists are helping to curb overuse.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to modern medicine. Unfortunately, very few antibiotics currently in the development pipeline have novel mechanisms of action or unique chemical structures.

For many years, pharmacists routinely added ‘until all finished’ to the dispensing label of antibiotics, in line with the previous iteration of Cautionary Advisory Label (CAL) D and the approved product information at the time. But when it became clear that this practice was starting to challenge appropriate antibiotic use and antimicrobial stewardship, something had to change.

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