Comparison of national antimicrobial treatment guidelines, African Union.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify and compare antimicrobial treatment guidelines from African Union (AU) Member States.

Methods

We reviewed national government agency and public health institutes' websites and communicated with country or regional focal points to identify existing treatment guidelines from AU Member States. We included guidelines if they contained disease-, syndrome- or pathogen-specific treatment recommendations and if those recommendations included antimicrobial name or class, dosage and therapy duration. The scope of the review was limited to infections and clinical syndromes that often have a bacterial cause. We assessed treatment guidelines for alignment with the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) criteria. We compared treatme

SUBMITTER: Craig J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8722630 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature