Estudios del consumo de antibióticos en pacientes de farmacia comunitaria

Abstract

Introduction: Spain presents one of the highest numbers of bacterial resistances in Europe and in parallel it constitutes one of the countries that consume higher amountsof antibiotics. The contribution of community pharmacists in educating patients on the appropriate use of antibiotics is important to achieve the objectives set in the PRAN 2019-21. Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe in Community Pharmacy patients: i)the typof antibiotic that patients withdrew, ii) the prescription profile in Primary Care and iii) the knowledge thatpatients had about the treatment.Methods: A descriptive observational study was performed in 86 patients from 5 pharmacies. For this, a questionnaire based on that of Molinero et al. (2018) was designed and several questions were added to assess the knowledge and type ofinfection / antibiotic that patients presented. Results: 90% of the patients surveyed showed a good knowledge of the prescribed treatment (duration and / or pattern); however, only 56% left the remaining antibiotic at the SIGRE point. The most commonly used antibiotics for the most prevalent infections in our study were amoxicillin in 39% of respiratory infections, fosfomycin in 75% of urinary infections in women and ciprofloxacin in 80% of urinary infections in men, following the recommendations of current therapeutic guidelines. Conclusions: The dispensation of antibiotics was carried out in all the cases undermedical prescription which was done, basically, by primary care physicians and mainlyas an initial treatment in respiratory and urinary infections.