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Mzumara, Grace Wezi, Mambiya, Michael and Iroh Tam, Pui-Ying 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3682-8892
(2021)
'Antimicrobial stewardship interventions in least developed and low-income countries: a systematic review protocol.'. BMJ Open, Vol 11, Issue 8, e047312.
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasing in low resource settings. It complicates the management of infectious diseases and is an increasing cause of death. This is due to, among other things, lack of health resources for appropriate diagnosis and unregulated access to antimicrobials in the public sphere. Developing context-specific interventions that enable judicious use of antimicrobials is important to curb this problem.
METHODS
We will conduct a systematic review of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) approaches in Development Assistance Committee in least developed and low-income countries. The inclusion criteria are antimicrobial stewardship interventions in hospitalised patients of all age groups and exclusion criteria are community-based trials and studies that solely focus on viral, fungal or parasite infections. Antimicrobial stewardship interventions will be classified as structural, enabling, persuasive, restrictive or combined. Outcomes of included studies will be classified as clinical, microbiological or behavioural outcomes. The studies to be included will be randomised controlled trials, controlled before-after studies, interrupted time series trials, cohort and qualitative studies. Data will be extracted using forms adapted from the Cochrane collaboration data collection form. This systematic review will be conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines and risk of bias will be done according to the Integrated quality Criteria for Review of Multiple Study Designs.
ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION
Our findings will be presented to clinicians and policymakers, to support developing AMS protocols for low resource settings. We will publish our results in peer-reviewed journals.
TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER
CRD42020210634.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | QW Microbiology and Immunology > QW 45 Microbial drug resistance. General or not elsewhere classified. WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WA Public Health > Statistics. Surveys > WA 950 Theory or methods of medical statistics. Epidemiologic methods WB Practice of Medicine > Therapeutics > WB 330 Drug therapy |
| Faculty: Department: | Clinical Sciences & International Health > Clinical Sciences Department Clinical Sciences & International Health > Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme (MLW) |
| Digital Object Identifer (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047312 |
| Depositing User: | Julie Franco |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2021 12:04 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2021 12:04 |
| URI: | https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/18833 |
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