Perceptions of community pharmacists regarding their role in antimicrobial stewardship in Pakistan: A way forward.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest challenges to healthcare resulting in increased morbidity and mortality, and associated with drug resistant infections. Community pharmacists (CPs) can play a key role in antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs to aid the prudent use of antibiotics, and in infection prevention and control.

Objective

The aim of this study was to assess perceptions of CPs regarding their role, awareness, collaboration, facilitators and barriers towards effective AMS practices in Pakistan.

Method

ology: A descriptive, cross-sectional study design was adopted, where convenience and snowball sampling methods were applied to enroll respondents (pharmacists working at these community pharmacies in different cities of Pakistan) of the

SUBMITTER: Hashmi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10070906 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature