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Contextual Factors that Influence Antibiotic Prescribing: A Discrete Choice Experiment of GP Registrars.
Appl Health Econ Health Policy
January 2025
General Practice Clinical Unit, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance is a global emergency related to overprescribing of antibiotics. Few studies have explored how prescribing behaviours may change as the consequence of changing resistance. Understanding how contextual factors influence antibiotic prescribing will facilitate improved communication strategies to promote appropriate antibiotic prescribing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntibiotics prescribing patterns before vs after minimum inhibitory concentration suppression: A quasi-experimental study.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
January 2025
Pharmacy Practice Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Culture and susceptibility results are essential to optimize antibiotic treatment. Prescribers rely on minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) interpretation to prescribe antibiotics. Many hospitals include MIC values with the interpretation in culture and susceptibility reports, where comparing MICs can be misleading (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of drug prescribing pattern based on World Health Organization drug use indicators in dermatology outpatient department of Injibara General Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2024.
Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
Ethiopian Statistical Services, Bahirdar, Ethiopia.
Background: Irrational use of medicines is a problem globally that soon needs to be addressed. According to estimates from the World Health Organization, almost half of all medications were improperly prescribed. This study aimed to assess the drug prescribing patterns based on World Health Organization drug use indicators in the dermatology outpatient department of Injibara General Hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResistance to empirical antibiotics in urinary tract infections caused by Enterobacterales in the East of England.
JAC Antimicrob Resist
February 2025
Department of Microbiology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Colney Lane, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7UY, UK.
Objectives: To characterize resistance rates in urinary tract infections caused by Enterobacterales to first- and second-line antibiotics.
Methods: Positive urine cultures examined by the Eastern Pathology Alliance network from September 2018 to September 2023 were retrospectively analysed. Enterobacterales from non-pregnant adults were included.
Healthcare worker views on antimicrobial resistance in chronic respiratory disease.
Antimicrob Resist Infect Control
January 2025
Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Background And Objective: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global crisis, however, relatively little is known regarding its impact in chronic respiratory disease and the specific challenges faced by healthcare workers across the world in this field. We aimed to assess global healthcare worker views on the challenges they face regarding AMR in chronic respiratory disease.
Methods: An online survey was sent to healthcare workers globally working in chronic respiratory disease through a European Respiratory Society clinical research collaboration (AMR-Lung) focussed on AMR in chronic lung disease.
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