Publication: Evaluation Of Current Practices Of Antimicrobial Use Among Neonates And Children In Selected Hospitals Of Punjab, Pakistan
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2025-06
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Mustafa, Zia Ul
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Excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics are one of the principal drivers of antimicrobial resistance (amr) including children. Consequently, the judicious and optimal use of antibacterial agents is an urgent need under pediatric oriented antimicrobial stewardship program (asp). There are considerable concerns with current high levels of inappropriate antibiotic use across all sectors in pakistan and the subsequent implications for amr. However, more information is needed, especially following the covid-19 pandemic, to achieve future targets. Consequently, the objectives of the study were to ascertain the current practices of antimicrobial use among neonates and children across hospitals in punjab, pakistan, combined with the current knowledge of asps and their implementation among pediatricians, to provide future guidance to all key stakeholder groups in pakistan. The world health organization (who) developed a standardized methodology to ascertain current antibiotic prescribing practices in hospitalized settings named “point prevalence survey (pps)”, which was adopted for the pps studies in this phd. In the first phase of this study, a multicenter pps was conducted among leading children’s hospitals in the public sector in pakistan treating infants and children as well as in the children wards of fourteen tertiary care health settings in the largest province,
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Evaluation Current Practices Antimicrobial Among Neonates