Antibiotics are medicines used to prevent and treat bacterial infections. Antibiotic usage is increasing rapidly day by with or without prescription. Irrational prescription usage, negligence of standard guidelines antimicrobial resistance complexity in the therapy desired outcome. High-volume antibiotics primary health care a major factor contributing antibiotic resistance. Educating physician...

This study examined whether a significant change in antibiotic use caused by an Australian government directive targeted at amoxicillin with clavulanic acid (AC) was associated with changes in prescription share, health care costs, and patient outcomes. We used an integrated database of computerized general practice medical records, which included data regarding 34,242 patients and 318,234 reco...

Objective: To examine whether patient and provider concordance by sex or race predicts antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis. Study setting: General Internal Medicine and Family Medicine adult clinics at a large safety-net hospital. Study design: We used a logistic model of prescribing as a function of race and sex concordance. Data extraction: Data were extracted from de-identified patie...

Methods A one-day prevalence survey in 2008 was conducted in 36 hospitals representing three different hospital levels across Vietnam. Medical records of all inpatients were reviewed to collect demographics, number and antibiotic class, and indications for antibiotic prescription. Based on the guidelines of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, USA, reasons fo...

UNLABELLED Antibiotic prescription habits, cost pattern, and the prospective intervention in an Intensive Care Unit were analyzed. METHODS Data on antibiotic utilization and costs were collected prospectively from individual electronic charts from August 2003 to January 2004, and retrospectively from August to December 2002. RESULTS A total of 180 and 107 patients were surveyed in 2002 and ...

Escalating antibiotic resistance is a “multinational public health crisis.” As children are heavy consumers of antibiotics and serve as community reservoirs of resistant organisms, promoting judicious pediatric antibiotic use can have high impact. Decreasing prescribing rates over the past decade have recently plateaued; young children still receive, on average, .1 antibiotic prescription per y...

Context Acute otitis media (AOM) is a leading cause of doctor consultations and antibiotic prescriptions in young children. Strategies to reduce antibiotic prescribing for AOM and thereby the emerging spread of antimicrobial resistance have focused on watchful waiting and delayed prescription, in particular in children over 2 years. An alternative strategy to combat antimicrobial resistance is ...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether reducing antibiotic prescriptions can reduce rates of resistance once resistance becomes prevalent. We attempted to determine whether reduced antibiotic consumption, which is observed yearly in children during the warm season, is associated with a reduction in antibiotic resistance in pneumococcal acute otitis media (AOM). METHODS Antibiotic prescriptions and ...

High levels of antibiotic use contribute to development of antibiotic resistance. There is little known about levels of antibiotic use in Samoa, although anecdotally, there are high levels of use, and a strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus may have developed there. The study aimed to gather basic data on levels of antibiotic use in Samoa. All those who import medicines into Sam...

PURPOSE Antibiotic prescription is a central public health issue. Overall, 90% of antibiotic prescriptions are delivered to patients in ambulatory care, and a substantial proportion of these prescriptions could be avoided. General Practitioner (GP) trainers are similar to other GPs in terms of sociodemographic and medical activities, but they may have different prescription patterns. Our aim wa...