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Indication for Antibiotic Prescription Among Children Attending Primary Healthcare Services in Rural Burkina Faso.

ABSTRACT: Of 61 355 visits by children <5 years old to 48 government-run primary healthcare facilities in Nouna District, Burkina Faso, 30 975 had an antibiotic prescribed (58% for pneumonia diagnoses). A minority of prescriptions were for diagnoses not requiring antibiotics, including malaria, nonbloody diarrhea, and cough without pneumonia.

SUBMITTER: Sie A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8492132 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Indication for Antibiotic Prescription Among Children Attending Primary Healthcare Services in Rural Burkina Faso.

Sié Ali A   Ouattara Mamadou M   Bountogo Mamadou M   Dah Clarisse C   Compaoré Guillaume G   Boudo Valentin V   Lebas Elodie E   Brogdon Jessica J   Nyatigo Fanice F   Arnold Benjamin F BF   Lietman Thomas M TM   Oldenburg Catherine E CE  

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20211001 7

Of 61 355 visits by children <5 years old to 48 government-run primary healthcare facilities in Nouna District, Burkina Faso, 30 975 had an antibiotic prescribed (58% for pneumonia diagnoses). A minority of prescriptions were for diagnoses not requiring antibiotics, including malaria, nonbloody diarrhea, and cough without pneumonia. ...[more]