ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
High Levels of Outpatient Antibiotic Prescription at a District Hospital in Ghana: Results of a Cross Sectional Study.
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- Impact of Point-of-Care Rapid Diagnostic Tests on Antibiotic Prescription Among Patients Aged <18 Years in Primary Healthcare Settings in 2 Peri-Urban Districts in Ghana: Randomized Controlled Trial Results.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Trial
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- Antibiotic stewardship and point-of-care testing for children in 25 low-income and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Antimicrobial Consumption and Utilisation in Zambia: Results from the Analysis of National Data for the Human and Animal Health Sectors.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Compliance with global action plan on antibiotic prescription and utilization: a multi-facility cross-sectional study in southern Nigeria.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Improvements in Prescribing Indicators and Antibiotic Utilization Patterns Following Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention at a District Hospital in Ghana.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- In search of pragmatic measures and models from routinely collected electronic records to inform continuous optimization of antibiotics stewardship at primary care settings: preliminary findings from Anhui, China.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Increasing the use of the WHO AWaRe system in antibiotic surveillance and stewardship programmes in low- and middle-income countries.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025Review
- The Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Rates ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Assessing the impact of antimicrobial stewardship implementation at a district hospital in Ghana using a health partnership model.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2023Article
- Nanotechnology-A Light of Hope for Combating Antibiotic Resistance.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- WHO AWaRe classification for antibiotic stewardship: tackling antimicrobial resistance - a descriptive study from an English NHS Foundation Trust prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Perceived antimicrobial dispensing practices in medicine outlets in Ghana: A maximum difference experiment design.PloS one · 2023Article
- Bacterial Contamination of Surgical Instruments Used at the Surgery Department of a Major Teaching Hospital in a Resource-Limited Country: An Observational Study.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Adherence to Prescribing Indicators at a District Hospital in Ghana: Do We Match WHO Standards?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundMonitoring of antibiotic prescription practices in hospitals is essential to assess and facilitate appropriate use. This is relevant to halt the progression of antimicrobial resistance.
methodsAssessment of antibiotic prescribing patterns and completeness of antibiotic prescriptions among out-patients in 2021 was conducted at the University Hospital of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in the Ashanti region of Ghana. We reviewed electronic medical records (EMR) of 49,660 patients who had 110,280 encounters in the year.
resultsThe patient encounters yielded 350,149 prescriptions. Every month, 33-36% of patient encounters resulted in antibiotic prescription, higher than the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommended optimum of 27%. Almost half of the antibiotics prescribed belonged to WHO's
conclusionsExtending antimicrobial stewardship to the out-patient settings by developing standard treatment guidelines, an out-patient specific drug formulary, and antibiograms can promote rational antibiotic use at the hospital. The EMR system of the hospital is a valuable tool for monitoring prescriptions that can be leveraged for future audits.
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