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Knowledge and confidence on prescribing antibiotics among medical graduates from a Sri Lankan university
Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases 12(2) · 2022
https://doi.org/10.4038/sljid.v12i2.8509
Abstract
Inappropriate antimicrobial prescription is the main contributory factor to rapidly growing antibiotic resistance. This cross-sectional study was done to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of antibiotic use among medical graduates at the University of Peradeniya using an online questionnaire. The medical graduates rated their education in cardiology to be ‘sufficient’ or ‘more than sufficient’ compared to infectious diseases and antimicrobials (p 75%) in deciding when not to use antibiotics and scored less (
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