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Review
. 2015:2015:214021.
doi: 10.1155/2015/214021. Epub 2015 Apr 5.

Educational effectiveness, target, and content for prudent antibiotic use

Chang-Ro Lee  1 , Jung Hun Lee  1 , Lin-Woo Kang  2 , Byeong Chul Jeong  1 , Sang Hee Lee  1
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Educational effectiveness, target, and content for prudent antibiotic use

Chang-Ro Lee et al. Biomed Res Int. 2015.

Abstract

Widespread antimicrobial use and concomitant resistance have led to a significant threat to public health. Because inappropriate use and overuse of antibiotics based on insufficient knowledge are one of the major drivers of antibiotic resistance, education about prudent antibiotic use aimed at both the prescribers and the public is important. This review investigates recent studies on the effect of interventions for promoting prudent antibiotics prescribing. Up to now, most educational efforts have been targeted to medical professionals, and many studies showed that these educational efforts are significantly effective in reducing antibiotic prescribing. Recently, the development of educational programs to reduce antibiotic use is expanding into other groups, such as the adult public and children. The investigation of the contents of educational programs for prescribers and the public demonstrates that it is important to develop effective educational programs suitable for each group. In particular, it seems now to be crucial to develop appropriate curricula for teaching medical and nonmedical (pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, and midwifery) undergraduate students about general medicine, microbial virulence, mechanism of antibiotic resistance, and judicious antibiotic prescribing.

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