Indication for Antibiotic Prescription Among Children Attending Primary Healthcare Services in Rural Burkina Faso.

Abstract

Of 61 355 visits by children <5 years old to 48 government-run primary healthcare facilities in Nouna District, Burkina Faso, 30 975 had an antibiotic prescribed (58% for pneumonia diagnoses). A minority of prescriptions were for diagnoses not requiring antibiotics, including malaria, nonbloody diarrhea, and cough without pneumonia.

• Authors: Ali Sié, Mamadou Ouattara, Mamadou Bountogo, Clarisse Dah, Guillaume Compaoré, Valentin Boudo, Elodie Lebas, Jessica Brogdon, Fanice Nyatigo, Benjamin F Arnold, Thomas M Lietman, Catherine E Oldenburg
• Journal: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (Clin Infect Dis) Vol. 73 Issue 7 Pg. 1288-1291 (10 05 2021) ISSN: 1537-6591 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 34018004 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
• Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Chemical References

• Anti-Bacterial Agents

Topics

• Anti-Bacterial Agents (therapeutic use)
• Burkina Faso (epidemiology)
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Humans
• Prescriptions
• Primary Health Care
• Rural Population