New Antibiotics Study Findings Have Been Reported from Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (National Health Insurance Scheme Improves Access and Optimization of Antimicrobial Use In the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching …): Drugs and Therapies – Antibiotics

2024 JAN 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Business Daily -- New research on Drugs and Therapies - Antibiotics is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Ife, Nigeria, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Nigeria instituted the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for universal health coverage. This study compared the NHIS and out-of-pocket (OOP) antibiotic prescribing with the World Health Organization (WHO) optimal values.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, “A total of 2190 prescription forms from the NHIS and OOP were included in this study conducted at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Nigeria from January 2021 to December 2022 and analysed using WHO drug prescribing guidelines. The average number of drugs per encounter was higher in the NHIS prescribing (chi(2)=58.956, p=0.00) than in OOP prescribing. The percentage of encounters with an antibiotic prescribed is higher in NHIS prescribing (chi(2)=46.034, p=0.000) than in OOP prescribing. The percentage of parenteral antibiotic prescribing is higher in OOP prescribing (chi(2)=25.413, p=0.000) than in NHIS prescribing. The percentage of antibiotic prescribed from the National Essential Medicine List is higher in NHIS prescribing (chi(2)=8.227, p=0.000) as well as the antibiotics prescribed from the Access category of the WHO Access, Watch and Reserve (AWaRe) Classification of antibiotics (chi(2)=23.946, p=0.000) when compared with OOP prescribing. Prescribing indicators show better performances with NHIS antibiotic prescribing and are closer to the WHO-recommended optimal values than in OPP prescribing.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Hence NHIS prescribing can be an easy target for hospital antibiotic stewardship intervention for optimal antibiotic prescribing.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: National Health Insurance Scheme Improves Access and Optimization of Antimicrobial Use In the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-ife, Nigeria. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2023. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene can be contacted at: Oxford Univ Press, Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/transactions-of-the-royal-society-of-tropical-medicine-and-hygiene/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Temitope O. Obadare, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Ife 5538220222, Osun, Nigeria. Additional authors for this research include Adeyemi T. Adeyemo, Doyin R. Abiola, Aaron O. Aboderin, Taiwo O. Ogundipe, Caleb M. Aboderin and Naheemot O. Sule.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad083. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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