Inappropriate Dental Antibiotic Prescriptions: Potential Driver of the Antimicrobial Resistance in Albaha Region, Saudi Arabia
| Autor: | Hani Saleh Alghamdi, Bander H Aldannish, Mohammad A Albanghali, Mohammed Abdullah Alzahrani, Abdullah Ali H Alzahrani, Shaia Saleh R. Almalki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.drug_class business.industry 030503 health policy & services Health Policy Medical record Antibiotics Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Retrospective cohort study Amoxicillin 03 medical and health sciences Metronidazole 0302 clinical medicine Antibiotic resistance Male patient Internal medicine medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Medical prescription 0305 other medical science business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Risk Management and Healthcare Policy. 13:175-182 |
| ISSN: | 1179-1594 |
| DOI: | 10.2147/rmhp.s247184 |
| Popis: | Purpose The aim of this study was to analyze and evaluate dental antibiotic prescriptions in Albaha Region, Saudi Arabia. Patients and Methods A two-year retrospective cohort study was conducted between September 1, 2017 and September 1, 2019 in children and adults. Data collected from the patients' medical records were analyzed using SPSS. The Z-test with Bonferroni correction and descriptive proportions were utilized to compare several levels of categorical variables. Results Of the 43,255 dental visits, antibiotics were provided during 12,573 (29.1%). The commonly prescribed antibiotics were amoxicillin and amoxicillin combined with metronidazole (56.3% and 16.9%, respectively). Alarmingly, antibiotics were provided in several conditions for which they are medically neither recommended nor indicated; together, they represented 27.8% of those consultations in which antibiotics were prescribed. Female dentists prescribed more antibiotics than male dentists (30%, P = < 0.000), with male patients receiving more antibiotics than female patients (36%, P = |
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