Shifting the Paradigm for Promoting Appropriate Antibiotic Use

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 ...

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 ...

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...

ASP Strategies and Appropriate Antibiotic Use

Rapid diagnostics and appropriate antibiotic use.

Most antibiotics are prescribed by physicians lacking postgraduate training in infectious diseases. As such, prescribing physicians have varying levels of interest and sophistication in thinking about how to use molecular and microbiological data to inform therapeutic choices. Strategies designed to modify physician antimicrobial-prescribing practices must therefore choose simplicity over compl...