Excessive Antibiotic Use Common in Poorer Families More likely to want antibiotics for kids' sniffles.

Medicaid parents in 2013 were even more likely to request unnecessary antibiotics. They were more likely to answer at least one question about attitudes toward antibiotics affirmatively compared with 2000 (46% versus 25%, P<0.01). Vaz added that she was surprised that very little progress has been made in correcting key misconceptions about antibiotics. But ignorance about their proper use was not entirely limited to Medicaid parents. She pointed out that 85% of both Medicaid and commercial insurance parents did not know that antibiotics are almost never used to treat bronchitis. Indeed, that was the only question with no statistically significant difference between groups (16% versus 15%, P=0.66). http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Parenting/52665?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-07-21&eun=g721819d0r