Antibiotic prescription at Kita’s health reference center: inventory of fixtures

Abstract

Resistance to antibiotics is a serious health threat. This bacterial resistance, favored by the misuse of antibiotics has become a global phenomenon. The goal of our study was to investigate the prescribing of antibiotics in Kita reference (RHC) health center. It was a prospective cross-sectional study of 6 months in patients admitted to Kita’s RHC has received an order during working hours. The frequency of antibiotics prescription in our study was 54.6%. Physicians were the biggest influencers either 89% of prescriptions dispensed with beta lactams were the most prescribed class of antibiotics 44.6%, with a predominance of 13.7% Amoxicillin. The realization of complementary examinations was low in 40% of cases. Our series was majority female with a sex ratio at 1.96, the average age being 30 years. The urogenital infection was the most represented pathology (35.3%) followed by typhoid fever (19.4%), respiratory infections (17%), gastrointestinal infections (15.3%) and skin infections (5.7%). The ordered antibiotics were mainly used by the oral route (69%)