Indication for Antibiotic Prescription Among Children Attending Primary Healthcare Services in Rural Burkina Faso. (21st May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sié, Ali; Ouattara, Mamadou; Bountogo, Mamadou; Dah, Clarisse; Compaoré, Guillaume; Boudo, Valentin; Lebas, Elodie; Brogdon, Jessica; Nyatigo, Fanice; Arnold, Benjamin F; Lietman, Thomas M; Oldenburg, Catherine E
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 73:Number 7(2021)
• Page Start: 1288
• Page End: 1291
• Publication Date: 2021-05-21
• Subjects: antibiotics -- pneumonia -- malaria -- diarrhea -- antibiotic stewardship; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciab471
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

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.