Aussie Drs not correctly using antibiotics for surgery more than half the time

Aussie doctors are not correctly using antibiotics during and after surgery, according to research which found that antibiotics and other antimicrobials were used as recommended only 48 per cent of the time. The main issue the research found was with the timing of giving the antibiotic during surgery - although in many cases the actual timing of the first surgical cut was not recorded - suggesting record keeping is also an area for improvement. The study also found that antibiotics were used for too long after surgery in more than half of cases.