Objective To examine prescription patterns and explore to what extent guidelines are
available and how they might influence treatment appropriateness among hospitalised …

Antimicrobial stewardship encourages appropriate antibiotic use, the specific activities of
which will vary by institutional context. We investigated regional variation in antibiotic use by …

Objective To delineate the prevalence and factors associated with antimicrobial use across
six referral hospitals in Tanzania using WHO point prevalence survey (PPS) methodology to …

Objective: Antibiotics are essential with inappropriate use leading to antimicrobial resistance
(AMR). Currently, little is known about antibiotic use among hospitals in Kenya, which is …

Background. The emergence of multidrug-resistant, extensively resistant and pan-resistant
pathogens and the widespread inappropriate use of antibiotics is a global catastrophe …

Background The global rise and spread of antibiotic resistance is limiting the usefulness of
antibiotics in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. The use of antibiotic …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains an important global public health issue with
antimicrobial misuse and overuse being one of the main drivers. The Global Point …

Results: Of 828 patients eligible for the study, 69.7% received antibiotics, with highest rates
in the adult Intensive Care Unit. There were therapeutic indications in 51.2% of the …

Background. Knowledge of antibiotic prescribing practice in primary care in South Africa is
limited. As 80% of human antibiotic use is in primary care, this knowledge is important in …

Objectives: The problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has assumed pandemic
dimensions especially among low-and middle-income countries such as Nigeria. Irrational …