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

Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Oct 5;73(7):1288-1291. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab471.

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.

Keywords: antibiotic stewardship; antibiotics; diarrhea; malaria; pneumonia.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

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

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents