Unravelling patient pathways in the context of antibacterial resistance in East Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A key factor driving the development and maintenance of antibacterial resistance (ABR) is individuals' use of antibiotics (ABs) to treat illness. To better understand motivations and context for antibiotic use we use the concept of a patient treatment-seeking pathway: a treatment journey encompassing where patients go when they are unwell, what motivates their choices, and how they obtain antibiotics. This paper investigates patterns and determinants of patient treatment-seeking pathways, and how they intersect with AB use in East Africa, a region where ABR-attributable deaths are exceptionally high.

Methods

The Holistic Approach to Unravelling Antibacterial Resistance (HATUA) Consortium collected quantitative data from 6,827 adult outpatients presenting with urin

SUBMITTER: Keenan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10278291 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature