Quality of Tuberculosis Care by Indian Pharmacies

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Tác giả: Rosalind Miller

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 616.99 Tumors and miscellaneous communicable diseases

Thông tin xuất bản: Elsevier, 2018

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Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 320723

For many patients in India, pharmacies are their first point of contact, where most drugs, including antibiotics, can be purchased over-the-counter (OTC). Recent standardized (simulated) patient studies, covering four Indian cities, provide new insights on how Indian pharmacies manage patients with suspected or known tuberculosis. Correct management of the simulated patients ranged from 13% to 62%, increasing with the certainty of the TB diagnosis. Antibiotics were frequently dispensed OTC to patients, with 16% to 37% receiving such drugs across the cases. On a positive note, these studies showed that no pharmacy dispensed first-line anti-TB drugs. Engagement of pharmacies is important to not only improve TB detection and care, but also limit the abuse of antibiotics.
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