Patient compliance with antibiotic treatment for respiratory tract infections

Kardas, Przemysław

doi:10.1093/jac/dkf046

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“…42 However, resistance levels will be lower if all courses of antibiotics are completed due to high adherence rates. 43 In the present study, CHWs delivered a similar number of counseling messages compared with FBHWs. Studies in other areas, such as sex education, have established the role of peers in helping to set norms even when they are less expert on an issue.…”

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Perceived Quality of Care of Community Health Worker and Facility-Based Health Worker Management of Pneumonia in Children Under 5 Years in Western Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Multidimensional Study

Shaw

Asadhi

Owuor

et al. 2016

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. Integrated community case management (iCCM) programs that train lay community health workers (CHWs) in the diagnosis and treatment of diarrhea, malaria, and pneumonia have been increasingly adopted throughout subSaharan Africa to provide services in areas where accessibility to formal public sector health services is low. One important aspect of successful iCCM programs is the acceptability and utilization of services provided by CHWs. To understand community perceptions of the quality of care in an iCCM intervention in western Kenya, we used the Primary Care Assessment Survey to compare caregiver attitudes about the diagnosis and treatment of childhood pneumonia as provided by CHWs and facility-based health workers (FBHWs). Overall, caregivers rated CHWs more highly than FBHWs across a set of 10 domains that capture multiple dimensions of the care process. Caregivers perceived CHWs to provide higher quality care in terms of accessibility and patient relationship and equal quality care on clinical aspects. These results argue for the continued implementation and scale-up of iCCM programs as an acceptable intervention for increasing access to treatment of childhood pneumonia.

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Perceived Quality of Care of Community Health Worker and Facility-Based Health Worker Management of Pneumonia in Children Under 5 Years in Western Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Multidimensional Study

Shaw

Asadhi

Owuor

et al. 2016

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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“…Improvements in adherence to antibiotic treatment regimens are hard to measure, particularly for prescriptions in ambulatory care where intake is not supervised. 44 Moreover, comparative assessments of the effectiveness of public awareness campaigns are problematic as different countries use varying parameters for evaluations and for measuring antibiotic use e.g. Defined Daily Doses (DDD) or number of packages prescribed per 1,000 inhabitants/day.…”

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Exploring the evidence base for national and regional policy interventions to combat resistance

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“…Efforts to improve the wastewater epidemiology approach for antibiotics will need to address: (a) heterogeneity in the temporal distribution of prescriptions over time; (b) heterogeneity in the spatial distribution of prescriptions (across the UK) over time; (c) heterogeneity in in vivo and environmental stability of the antibiotic, including sewage pipes prior to reaching the WWTP inlet [46]; and (d) variability in compliance rate. It has been shown that the compliance rate for antibiotics can depend on the number of doses per day and age [47][48][49]. Further consideration should be given to (e) the sample size and sampling method.…”

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Assessment of Domestic Wastewater Disposal in Some Selected Wards of Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State, Nigeria

Monsalvo¹

2015

Water Treatment in Developed and Developing Nations

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The concentration of eleven antibiotics (trimethoprim, oxytetracycline, ciprofloxacin, azithromycin, cefotaxime, doxycycline, sulfamethoxazole, erythromycin, clarithromycin, ofloxacin, norfloxacin), three decongestants (naphazoline, oxymetazoline, xylometazoline) and the antiviral drug oseltamivir's active metabolite, oseltamivir carboxylate (OC), were measured weekly at 21 locations within the River Thames catchment in England during the month of November 2009, the autumnal peak of the influenza A[H1N1]pdm09 pandemic. The aim was to quantify the pharmaceutical response to the pandemic and compare this to drug use during the late pandemic (March 2010) and the inter-pandemic periods (May 2011). A large and small wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) were sampled in November 2009 to understand the differential fate of the analytes in the two WWTPs prior to their entry in the receiving river and to estimate drug users using a wastewater epidemiology approach. Mean hourly OC concentrations in the small and large WWTP's influent were 208 and 350 ng/L (max, 2070 and 550 ng/L, respectively). Erythromycin was the most concentrated antibiotic measured in Benson and Oxford WWTPs influent (max = 6,870 and 2,930 ng/L, respectively). Napthazoline and oxymetazoline were the most frequently detected and concentrated decongestant in the Benson WWTP influent (1650 and 67 ng/L) and effluent (696 and 307 ng/L), respectively, but were below detection in the Oxford WWTP. OC was found in 73% of November 2009's weekly river samples (max = 193 ng/L), but only in 5% and 0% of the late-and inter-pandemic river samples, respectively. The mean river concentration of each antibiotic during the pandemic largely fell between 17-74 ng/L, with clarithromycin (max = 292 ng/L) and erythromycin (max = 448 ng/L) yielding the highest single measure. In general, the concentration and frequency of detecting antibiotics in the river increased during the pandemic. OC was uniquely well-suited for the wastewater epidemiology approach owing to its nature as a prodrug, recalcitrance and temporally-and spatially-resolved prescription statistics.

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Patient compliance with antibiotic treatment for respiratory tract infections

Cited by 193 publications

References 34 publications

Perceived Quality of Care of Community Health Worker and Facility-Based Health Worker Management of Pneumonia in Children Under 5 Years in Western Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Multidimensional Study

Perceived Quality of Care of Community Health Worker and Facility-Based Health Worker Management of Pneumonia in Children Under 5 Years in Western Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Multidimensional Study

Exploring the evidence base for national and regional policy interventions to combat resistance

Assessment of Domestic Wastewater Disposal in Some Selected Wards of Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State, Nigeria

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