A nationwide survey of antimicrobial dispensation practices in pharmacies and bodegas in the Dominican Republic

In many developing countries, antimicrobials are available without prescriptions in pharmacies and stores. We performed a survey to describe antimicrobial availability, training, and use recommendations for common symptoms in the Dominican Republic. Pharmacy recommendations varied, whereas aminopeni...

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Autores principales: Mena Lora, Alfredo J., Rojas-Fermin, Rita, Bisono, Bismarck, Almonte, Marcos, Bleasdale, Susan C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9726472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36483416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.314
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author Mena Lora, Alfredo J.
Rojas-Fermin, Rita
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Almonte, Marcos
Bleasdale, Susan C.
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description In many developing countries, antimicrobials are available without prescriptions in pharmacies and stores. We performed a survey to describe antimicrobial availability, training, and use recommendations for common symptoms in the Dominican Republic. Pharmacy recommendations varied, whereas aminopenicillins are routinely recommended at bodegas. Frontline staff are gatekeepers and potential targets for stewardship education.
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spelling pubmed-97264722022-12-07 A nationwide survey of antimicrobial dispensation practices in pharmacies and bodegas in the Dominican Republic Mena Lora, Alfredo J. Rojas-Fermin, Rita Bisono, Bismarck Almonte, Marcos Bleasdale, Susan C. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol Concise Communication In many developing countries, antimicrobials are available without prescriptions in pharmacies and stores. We performed a survey to describe antimicrobial availability, training, and use recommendations for common symptoms in the Dominican Republic. Pharmacy recommendations varied, whereas aminopenicillins are routinely recommended at bodegas. Frontline staff are gatekeepers and potential targets for stewardship education. Cambridge University Press 2022-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9726472/ /pubmed/36483416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.314 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
spellingShingle Concise Communication
Mena Lora, Alfredo J.
Rojas-Fermin, Rita
Bisono, Bismarck
Almonte, Marcos
Bleasdale, Susan C.
A nationwide survey of antimicrobial dispensation practices in pharmacies and bodegas in the Dominican Republic
title A nationwide survey of antimicrobial dispensation practices in pharmacies and bodegas in the Dominican Republic
title_full A nationwide survey of antimicrobial dispensation practices in pharmacies and bodegas in the Dominican Republic
title_fullStr A nationwide survey of antimicrobial dispensation practices in pharmacies and bodegas in the Dominican Republic
title_full_unstemmed A nationwide survey of antimicrobial dispensation practices in pharmacies and bodegas in the Dominican Republic
title_short A nationwide survey of antimicrobial dispensation practices in pharmacies and bodegas in the Dominican Republic
title_sort nationwide survey of antimicrobial dispensation practices in pharmacies and bodegas in the dominican republic
topic Concise Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9726472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36483416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.314
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