Promoting Appropriate Antibiotic Use in the Community

Promoting Appropriate Use of Drugs in Children

Promotion of appropriate and safe drugs in children is the need of the hour globally. Pediatric population by itself is a spectrum of different physiologies with significant variation in pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Unfortunately, 50-90% of drugs used in children today have never been actually studied in this population, and the results of drug studies done in adults are often extrapo...

Ecosystem approach to promoting appropriate antibiotic use for children in indigenous communities in Ecuador.

OBJECTIVE To collect baseline data on infectious diseases and antibiotic use in two Andean indigenous communities in Ecuador in order to determine the feasibility and acceptability of applying an ecosystem approach to address associated problems. METHODS In visits to 65 households with children under age 5 years, environmental risk factors for infectious diseases were evaluated through rapid ...

the use of appropriate madm model for ranking the vendors of mci equipments using fuzzy approach

abstract nowadays, the science of decision making has been paid to more attention due to the complexity of the problems of suppliers selection. as known, one of the efficient tools in economic and human resources development is the extension of communication networks in developing countries. so, the proper selection of suppliers of tc equipments is of concern very much. in this study, a ...

Community Pharmacy promoting appropriate sedative use in Aged Care: the ‘RedUSe’ project

ASP Strategies and Appropriate Antibiotic Use