Assessing the readiness of a tertiary health facility (Queen Elizabeth Hospital) to antimicrobial stewardship programme
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2021-03-21
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Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Abstract
In this cross-sectional study, we will find out how different health care professionals contribute
to antimicrobial resistance specifically antibiotics at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital,
Blantyre Malawi and access if antimicrobial stewardship program would be a tool to address
this problem at the facility. Antibiotics have been chosen due to increased rate of drug
resistance while the rate of new medication discovery to substitute those that the bacteria have
developed tolerance or resistance is very low. Antibiotic resistance occurs naturally but misuse
of antibiotics in humans and animals exacerbates it. Therefore, special training, knowledge
acquisition and awareness campaign among health care professional and the public concerning
antimicrobial resistance will help to reduce further increase in drug resistance as they will have
true and useful information.
The main objective of this study is to implement antimicrobial stewardship program at Queen
Elizabeth Central Hospital. The study will further attempt to assess enablers of Antimicrobial
Stewardship Program (AMSP); assess barriers of AMSP; determining feasibility of
antimicrobial stewardship program and assessing the expected benefits of AMSP.
A four-week cross sectional study will be conducted at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital under
Pharmacy department, Laboratory department, |Medical wards (3B and 5A wards) and the data
will include all information gathered from pharmacy personnel, nurses, laboratory scientists
and medical doctors which are of a priority to this research.
The questionnaires will be used to collect data from different health care professionals
concerning antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance and the collected data will be analysed
using a software SPSS.
The expected finding is that antimicrobial resistance is on rise due to lack of clear and proper
information about antimicrobial stewardship program and its implementation among health
care professionals at Queens central hospital would help to minimise this problem.
The collected results will be submitted to COMREC and published to try to narrow the gap that
exists among health care professionals (as most of the time they work independently) in order
to deal with antimicrobial resistance.
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