ENT still overprescribe antibiotics

Data released by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) on Monday shows that doctors in ENT department continue to overprescribe antibiotics.

The data said that the antibiotics prescription rate in ENT marked 57.76 percent in the first half of the year, down 4.96 percentage points from 72.72 percent in 2011. General practitioners ranked second as 44.83 percent, compared wi...