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Observational studyFrontiers in public health2020

Determinants of Inappropriate Antibiotics Use in Rural Central Ghana Using a Mixed Methods Approach.

Samuel Afari-Asiedu, Felix Boakye Oppong, Alma Tostmann, Martha Ali Abdulai, Ellen Boamah-Kaali, Stephaney Gyaase, Oscar Agyei, John Kinsman, Marlies Hulscher, Heiman F L Wertheim and 1 more

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Observational study in Frontiers in public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Samuel Afari-AsieduKintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana.
Felix Boakye OppongKintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana.
Alma TostmannRadboud University Medical Center, Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Martha Ali AbdulaiKintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana.
Ellen Boamah-KaaliKintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana.
Stephaney GyaaseKintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana.
Oscar AgyeiKintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana.
John KinsmanDepartment of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Marlies HulscherRadboud University Medical Center, Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Heiman F L WertheimRadboud University Medical Center, Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Kwaku Poku AsanteKintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsRural PopulationDrug Resistance, MicrobialFamily CharacteristicsGhanaHumansAnti-Bacterial Agentsantibiotic resistanceantibioticsantibiotic useGhanainappropriate antibiotic use

Identifiers

PMID32266200
PMCPMC7105730

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