Healthcare professionals' level of medication knowledge in Africa: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Understanding how much healthcare professionals (HCPs) know about medication can help in devising strategies to improve rational medication use. This study aimed to synthesize information on the level of medication knowledge of HCPs in Africa.

Method

We performed a systematic literature study in Embase and PubMed. We included original studies quantifying HCPs' medication knowledge, published between 2012 and 2016. We extracted disease focus, country, number and type of HCPs included and all medication-related knowledge questions and scored the quality of papers. The outcome measure was the percentage of HCPs who correctly answered medication knowledge questions.

Results

We identified 64 studies from 12 African countries, comprising 13 911 HCPs, mostly nurses/midw

SUBMITTER: Berhe DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6256006 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature