Publications by authors named "Ene Daniel-Ebune"
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- * A study conducted a telephone survey of 150 caregivers in Nigeria to examine factors influencing their acceptance of malaria management services from trained healthcare providers, which involved descriptive and logistic regression analyses to identify significant correlations.
- * Results showed that 68% of caregivers reported their child was tested for malaria, and 89% received Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT), with higher acceptance rates noted among caregivers of older children and those whose healthcare providers prescribed ACT.
Background: Community Pharmacists (CPs) and Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors (PPMVs) are often the first point of care for many Nigerians, and when sufficiently trained, they contribute to the expansion of family planning services. Nigeria's task shifting policy and existing regulatory and licensing bodies provide the enabling environment for PPMVs to be stratified and trained. This study explored the perceptions of stakeholders toward the pilot three-tier accreditation system instituted by the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria with support from the IntegratE project.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe optimal provision of pharmaceutical care services requires an adequate number of pharmacists, satellite pharmacies and service units at healthcare facilities. We examined the availability of these requirements at Nigerian hospitals using the 2016 nationwide inspection reports of hospital pharmacies conducted by the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria. Records of 254 hospitals inspected were retrieved, of which 171 (67.
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