Intermountain Health Researchers Receive Major Grant to Study Ways to Reduce Antibiotic Overuse in Urgent Care, Outpatient Settings
Intermountain Health researchers have received a major grant to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance and antibiotic overuse in urgent care and outpatient clinics to ensure patients are getting the best and most effective care for their illnesses.The new $356,000 grant will be used to launch the Intermountain ReSCORE-UC project, a two-year study of behavioral and organizational methods to enhance antibiotic use in Intermountain urgent care centers and outpatient clinics.The grant is from Merck, a global science and technology company that develops medicines, vaccines, and other health solution.
