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  • Not sure why you’re being downvoted, from a cursory search it looks like your claims are supported by the literature. The hivemind knows better, I guess.

    From the article:

    A practical approach in the community setting is to educate patients and advise them that it is safe to cease the antibiotics early if microbiological results exclude a bacterial cause for their symptoms (e.g. negative urine culture or viral acute respiratory infection), or the patient feels better for conditions where the benefit of antibiotics is small and the infection is not severe (e.g. acute respiratory infections).