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title: ":: Antibiotic Prescribing Course (2008-2010)"
url: https://getsmartcolorado.com/08course.htm
description: "Record of the continuing-education course the Get Smart Colorado campaign ran between October 2008 and October 2010."
---

# :: Antibiotic Prescribing Course (2008-2010)

This site is an archive of a former Colorado antibiotics education campaign that published between about 2003 and 2010. It is not a health authority and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for any government agency, university, hospital or professional society. The wording below is the campaign's own historical material and is kept for the record; talk to your own clinician about your own care.

Course

Improving Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections

Launch date

October 23, 2008

Termination date

October 23, 2010

Status

Ended. The course is no longer offered and is not available from this archive.

## Objectives, as the campaign described them

- Describe four consequences of the overuse of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections
- Apply the principles of appropriate antibiotic use for treatment of acute bronchitis, acute sinusitis, pharyngitis and acute otitis media
- Develop practical strategies to adopt appropriate antibiotic use within your practice.

The registration instructions, faculty list, sponsorship and continuing-education credit statements that appeared on the original page are not reproduced here, because the course, its credit approvals and its contact routes all lapsed.

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