Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Médecins Sans Frontières, New Delhi, India.
Trop Med Int Health. 2021 May;26(5):504-517. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13550. Epub 2021 Jan 28.
OBJECTIVES: To explore the current evidence on interventions to influence antibiotic prescribing behaviour of health professionals in outpatient settings in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, an underrepresented area in the literature. METHODS: The systematic review protocol for this study was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42020170504). We searched PubMed, Embase and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) for studies relating to antibiotic prescribing of health professionals in outpatient settings in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. Behavioural interventions were classified as persuasive, enabling, restrictive, structural or bundle (mix of different interventions). In total, 3,514 abstracts were screened and 42 studies were selected for full-text review, with 13 studies included in the final narrative synthesis. RESULTS: Of the 13 included studies, five were conducted in Vietnam, two in Sudan, two in Tanzania, two in India and two in Kenya. All studies were conducted in the outpatient or ambulatory setting: eight took place in primary health centres, two in private clinics and three in pharmacies. Our review found that enabling or educational interventions alone may not be sufficient to overcome the ingrained incentives to link revenue generation to sales of antibiotics, and hence, their inappropriate prescription or misuse. Bundle interventions appear to be very effective at changing prescription behaviour among healthcare providers, including drug sellers and pharmacists. CONCLUSIONS: Multi-faceted bundle interventions that combine regulation enforcement with face-to-face education and peer influence may be more effective than educational interventions alone at curbing inappropriate antibiotic use.
目的:探索目前在低收入和中低收入国家的门诊环境中影响卫生专业人员开抗生素处方行为的干预措施的证据,这是文献中代表性不足的领域。
方法:本研究的系统评价方案在 PROSPERO(CRD42020170504)中进行了注册。我们在 PubMed、Embase 和 Cochrane 中央对照试验注册中心(CENTRAL)中搜索了与低收入和中低收入国家门诊环境中卫生专业人员的抗生素处方相关的研究。行为干预措施被分为劝导性、赋权性、限制性、结构性或组合(不同干预措施的混合)。总共筛选了 3514 篇摘要,并选择了 42 项研究进行全文审查,其中 13 项研究纳入最终的叙述性综合分析。
结果:在纳入的 13 项研究中,有 5 项在越南进行,2 项在苏丹进行,2 项在坦桑尼亚进行,2 项在印度进行,2 项在肯尼亚进行。所有研究均在门诊或流动环境中进行:8 项在初级保健中心进行,2 项在私人诊所进行,3 项在药房进行。我们的综述发现,仅实施赋权或教育干预措施可能不足以克服将创收与抗生素销售联系起来的固有激励因素,从而导致抗生素的不当处方或滥用。捆绑干预措施似乎非常有效地改变了医疗保健提供者(包括药剂师和药剂师)的处方行为。
结论:多方面的捆绑干预措施,将执法与面对面教育和同行影响相结合,可能比单独的教育干预措施更有效地遏制不适当的抗生素使用。
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