Contents

• Introduction 2
• Methods 3
• Results 5
• Critical Appraisal of the Researches using CASP Checklist 5
• Grading the Studies- FORM level of evidence 11
• Discussion 11
• Conclusion 12
• References 13
• Bibliography 15

Description

Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as one of the growing public health problems in the past decade, which impends the effective treatment and prevention of the ever increasing types of infections caused due to viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites (Butler et al., 2012). The untreatable bacterial infections have become treatable through discovery of range of antibiotics, but their inappropriate and irrational uses has led to emergence of resistant microbial population (World Health Organization, 2018). Antibiotics disrupt processes that is needed by bacteria to survive or preventing them from reproducing. The development of antibiotic resistance there has been failure of resistant bacteria to respond to prescribed treatment, financial burden, risk of infectious diseases getting uncontrollable, poor response to advanced therapeutic approaches and lastly resistant organisms can spread to other continents and nations (Roca et al., 2015). Antibiotic resistance has increased significantly across the globe and has led to higher medial costs, increased mortality and prolonged hospital stays (World Health Organization, 2018). Resistance tends to develop where bacteria is frequently exposed to antibiotics and when there are lot of human or animal hosts (BBC, 2018). The increase in the antibiotic resistance among people is mainly due to misuse and overuse of antibiotics and poor infection control and prevention.
There is a need for changing the manner in which antibiotics are prescribed and used. The behavioral changes such as reducing spread of infections through vaccination, good food hygiene, practicing safe sex and handwashing can help in reducing the dependency on antibiotics (BBC, 2018). There is a need to review and analyze the interventions carried out at different levels in reducing rates of antibiotic prescription. This report critically analyzes one of the approaches used to reduce usage of antibiotic. The report aims to address the research question of how effective community and primary care education interventions are at reducing rates of antibiotic prescription.