Open Access<p>Community Pharmacy Personnel Understanding of Antibiotic Dispensing in Eastern Nepal</p>
Author(s) -
Nikita Goswami,
Prasanna Dahal,
Shakti Shrestha,
Bhuvan Kc,
Shyam Kumar Mallik
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s264192
Subject(s) - pharmacy , medicine , medical prescription , antibiotics , antibiotic resistance , family medicine , descriptive statistics , nursing , microbiology and biotechnology , statistics , mathematics , biology
Community pharmacies are easily accessible outlets providing medicines to the general public in Nepal, but it is known that irrational dispensing of antibiotics from such outlets contributes to antimicrobial resistance.