Data/hora: 16/06/2024 06:23:24

Provedor de dados: 	60	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Level of patient information on antibiotic use	
Autores: 	Fiol,Fernando de Sá Del; Barberato-Filho,Silvio; Lopes,Luciane Cruz; Toledo,Maria Inês de.	
Data: 	2010-09-01	
Ano: 	2010	
Palavras-chave: 	Antimicrobial therapeutic; Antimicrobial resistance; Antibiotics/rational use.	
Resumo: 	Establishing an effective antimicrobial therapeutic requires choosing the appropriate antibiotic and ensuring compliance with times and doses prescribed. Problems concerning early abandonment and unfinished prescriptions due to lack of information, as well as more resistant microorganisms, have been identified as the major factors responsible for therapeutic failure in bacterial infections. This study aimed to determine the level of information among antibiotic users undergoing treatment with these drugs, and habits related to other therapies. A survey was applied to 403 users and identified great difficulties in understanding prescriptions, especially among users with no formal schooling who understood only 21 to 28% of the prescribed instructions. This same group reported having received the lowest amount of information during the consultation, with only 28.6% receiving verbal information from the prescriber on the length of course with the drug. Additionally, 21% of this group reported a tendency to use the antibiotic until symptoms resolved, without heeding the length of course prescribed. Guidance on antibiotics use should be an integral and fundamental part of effective therapy.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502010000300006	
Editor: 	Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1984-82502010000300006	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences  v.46 n.3 2010	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess