ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies Including Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) for Pediatric Patients with Upper-Respiratory-Tract Infections in Primary Care: A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations.
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- Task shifting of point-of-care testing to lay health workers in rural primary health facilities in Nsanje, Malawi.Global health action · 2026Article
- Point-of-Care Diagnostic Technologies for Antimicrobial Resistance: Principles, Platforms, Clinical Impact, and Future Directions.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Impact of pharmaceutical intervention on the use of intravenous antibiotics in patients with bacterial upper respiratory tract infections: protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Open, Randomised, Controlled Study to Evaluate the Role of a Dietary Supplement ContainingChildren (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Task sharing for point-of-care testing: Review of national health policies and implementation landscape in 19 African countries.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Pricing, Procurement and Reimbursement Policies for Incentivizing Market Entry of Novel Antibiotics and Diagnostics: Learnings from 10 Countries Globally.Applied health economics and health policy · 2024Review
- Antimicrobial resistance in China across human, animal, and environment sectors - a review of policy documents using a governance framework.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2024Review
- The Effectiveness of a Dietary Supplement with Honey, Propolis,Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Editorial for the Special Issue "Antibiotic Prescribing and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Pediatric Patients".Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Positive Point-of-Care Influenza Test Significantly Decreases the Probability of Antibiotic Treatment during Respiratory Tract Infections in Primary Care.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Determinants of the Empiric Use of Antibiotics by General Practitioners in South Africa: Observational, Analytic, Cross-Sectional Study.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Upper-respiratory-tract infections (URTIs) are among the main causes of antibiotic prescriptions in pediatric patients. Over one-third of all antibiotic prescriptions for URTIs in children are estimated to be inappropriate, as the majority of URTIs are caused by viral agents. Several strategies, including clinical scoring algorithms and different point-of-care tests (POCTs) have been developed to help discriminate bacterial from viral URTIs in the outpatient clinical setting. A systematic review of the literature was conducted following PRISMA guidelines with the objective of summarizing evidence from health-economic evaluations on the use of POCT for URTIs in pediatric outpatients. A total of 3375 records identified from four databases and other sources were screened, of which 8 met the inclusion criteria. Four studies were classified as being of high reporting quality, and three were of medium quality. Five out of eight studies concluded in favor of strategies that included POCTs, with an additional study finding several POCTs to be cost-effective compared to usual care but over an acceptable WTP threshold. This review found POCT could be a valuable tool for antimicrobial stewardship strategies targeted towards childhood URTIs in primary care.
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