Exploring the Use of Antibiotics for Dental Patients in a Middle-Income Country: Interviews with Clinicians in Two Ghanaian Hospitals.
Jacqueline SneddonWendy ThompsonLily N A KpobiDiana Abena AdeIsrael Abebrese SefahDaniel Kwame AfriyieJoanna GoldthorpeRebecca TurnerSaher NawazShona WilsonJo HartLucie M T Byrne-DavisPublished in: Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
This work provides new evidence on behavioural factors influencing dental antibiotic prescribing, including resource constraints which affect the availability of certain antibiotics and diagnostic tests. Further research is required to fully understand their influence and inform the development of new approaches to optimising antibiotic use by dentists in Ghana and potentially other low- and middle-income countries.