Interventions to reduce antibiotic prescribing in LMICs: a scoping review of evidence from human and animal health systems

A Wilkinson, A Ebata, H MacGregor - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
This review identifies evidence on supply-side interventions to change the practices of
antibiotic prescribers and gatekeepers in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). A total …

A narrative review of antibiotic prescribing practices in primary care settings in South Africa and potential ways forward to reduce antimicrobial resistance

A Chigome, N Ramdas, P Skosana, A Cook… - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
There are concerns with the current prescribing of antibiotics in both the private and public
primary care settings in South Africa. These concerns need to be addressed going forward …

Digital technology and the future of health systems

M Mitchell, L Kan - Health Systems & Reform, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Digital health is having a profound effect on health systems, changing the balance of power
between provider and patient, enabling new models of care, and shifting the focus of health …

Ongoing strategies to improve the management of upper respiratory tract infections and reduce inappropriate antibiotic use particularly among lower and middle …

B Godman, M Haque, J McKimm… - … medical research and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Antibiotics are indispensable to maintaining human health; however, their
overuse has resulted in resistant organisms, increasing morbidity, mortality and costs …

A digital health algorithm to guide antibiotic prescription in pediatric outpatient care: a cluster randomized controlled trial

R Tan, G Kavishe, LB Luwanda, AV Kulinkina… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Excessive antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance are major global public health threats.
We developed ePOCT+, a digital clinical decision support algorithm in combination with C …

A narrative review of recent antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care in Tanzania: findings and implications

A Massele, AM Rogers, D Gabriel, A Mayanda… - Medicina, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background and objectives: There are concerns with the current prescribing practices of
antibiotics in ambulatory care in Tanzania, including both the public and private sectors …

[HTML][HTML] Electronic clinical decision algorithms for the integrated primary care management of febrile children in low-resource settings: review of existing tools

K Keitel, V D'Acremont - Clinical microbiology and infection, 2018 - Elsevier
Background The lack of effective, integrated diagnostic tools poses a major challenge to the
primary care management of febrile childhood illnesses. These limitations are especially …

[HTML][HTML] Community health worker-based mobile health (mHealth) approaches for improving management and caregiver knowledge of common childhood infections …

H Mahmood, B Mckinstry, S Luz, K Fairhurst… - Journal of global …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Children in lower middle-income countries (LMICs) are more at risk of dying,
than those in High Income Countries (HICs), due to highly prevalent deadly yet preventable …

The submerged part of the AI-Ceberg [Perspectives]

R Couillet, D Trystram… - IEEE Signal Processing …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article discusses the contradiction between the exploding energy demand of artificial
intelligence (AI) and the information and communication (ICT) industry as a whole and the …

The promise of mobile technologies for the health care system in the developing world: a systematic review

G Karageorgos, I Andreadis, K Psychas… - IEEE reviews in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolution of mobile technologies and their rapid penetration into people's daily lives,
especially in the developing countries, have highlighted mobile health, or m-health, as a …