Patterns of antibiotic prescribing and appropriateness for respiratory tract infections in a teaching hospital in Jordan.

Sireen M AlkhaldiNada A YaseenElaf A BatainehBaeth Al-RawashdehMones A AlbadainehSura M MubarakRazan E JarasHana A Taha

Published in: International journal of clinical practice (2021)

Antibiotics were inappropriately prescribed, and their prescribing rate was high in the outpatient setting in the family medicine clinics studied in Jordan. This calls for policy-level interventions to promote judicious antibiotic prescribing to minimise the avoidable burden of microbial resistance and unnecessary expenditure.

Keyphrases

primary care
respiratory tract
adverse drug
healthcare
public health
microbial community
physical activity
mental health