Predictors of antibiotic prescriptions: a knowledge, attitude and practice survey among physicians in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria.
Dimie OgoinaGarba IliyasuVivian KwagheAkan OtuIorhen Ephram AkaseOlukemi AdekanmbiDalhat MahmoodMicheal IroezinduShamsudin AliyuAbisoye Sunday OyeyemiStella RotifaMukhtar Abdulmajid AdeizaUche Sonny UnigweJuliet Ijeoma MmeremFarouq Muhammad DayyabZaiyad Garba HabibDaniel OtokpaEmmanuel EffaAbdulrazaq Garba HabibPublished in: Antimicrobial resistance and infection control (2021)
Our study suggests gaps in knowledge and attitude of APR and AMR with inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics among physicians practicing in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria. Nigeria's NAPAR should also target establishment and improvement of ASP in hospitals and address institutional, educational, and professional factors that may influence emergence of AMR in Nigeria.