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RANDOMIZED EVALUATION ON THE CONSUMPTION OF ANTIBIOTICS IN COMMUNITY PHARMACIES

CORINA MOISA ^1#*, ANDREEA MARGARETA VLAD ^1#, ALIN TEUȘDEA ^2#, OANA CADAR ^3#, MARIA ALEXANDRA HOAGHIA ^3#, ROXANA LIANA STAN ^4#, ADRIANA TĂEREL ^5#, CLAUDIA JURCA ^1#, LAURA GRAȚIELA VICAȘ ^1#

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According to the statistics, each year 400,000 Europeans develop infections with antibiotic-resistant bacterial strain, and 25,000 die due to the exhaustion of all therapeutic resources. These statistics are alarming, considering that medical services have become lately more and more accessible, but the “antibiotics era”, namely the prescribing of these pharmacological agents on a large scale, generated the present situation. There is a category of patients who seek specialist medical services, yet many of them also make errors when it comes to the correct administration of the antibiotics prescribed. The emergence of antibiotic resistant strains occurred due to the of insufficient or excessive treatment schemes, insufficient doses or treatment duration. Physicians and pharmacists have an important role in limiting the occurrence and development of the antibiotics resistant strains. The objective of the present study was the comparative assessment of antibiotic’s consumption in urban and rural areas, in a western region of Romania for both children and adults, the medicines being prescribed by physicians and monitored through community pharmacies. The study was conducted over 2 years and involved five types of active substances, namely amoxicillin, cefuroxime, clarithromycin, sulphametoxazole + trimethoprim and cefixime.