Indication for Antibiotic Prescription Among Children Attending Primary Healthcare Services in Rural Burkina Faso.
Ali SiéMamadou OuattaraMamadou BountogoClarisse DahGuillaume CompaoréValentin BoudoElodie LebasJessica BrogdonFanice NyatigoBenjamin F ArnoldThomas M LietmanCatherine E OldenburgPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
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.