Assessment of antibiotics prescribing for outpatients in Cotonou, Benin

The objective was to study antibiotics prescribing in Cotonou health care centres. This prospective study was conducted in two phases. The first consisted in collecting antibiotics prescriptions. In a second phase, the prescriptions were submitted to 4 experts who assessed the correctness of the pre...

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Published inBulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique (1990) Vol. 102; no. 2; pp. 110 - 112
Main Authors Affolabi, D, Alidjinou, K E, Dossou-Gbété, L, Lankpéko, C M, Paraiso, M N, Anagonou, S Y
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published France 01.05.2009
Subjects
Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use
Benin
Drug Prescriptions - standards
Drug Prescriptions - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Benin
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Summary:The objective was to study antibiotics prescribing in Cotonou health care centres. This prospective study was conducted in two phases. The first consisted in collecting antibiotics prescriptions. In a second phase, the prescriptions were submitted to 4 experts who assessed the correctness of the prescribing. Out of the 588 prescriptions that could be analysed, 173 (29.4%) were correct The quality of the prescribing seems to depend only on the pathology but not on the nature of the basic training of the prescriber
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ISSN:0037-9085