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AMR-SORT IT evidence summaries: Communicating research findings
TDR and partners have developed a new SORT IT training module that aims to strengthen researchers’ communication skills and enhance uptake of their research findings.
Below are evidence summaries developed by training participants.
Ghana
- Bacteria-contaminated lettuce threatens health: a call for improving safety in Ghana.
- Over-prescription of antibiotics for acute conjunctivitis: a call for action to prevent antibiotic resistance in Ghana.
- High resistance to recommended antibiotics for treating urinary tract infections in Ghana: Is it time for a guideline review?
- Antibiotic prescriptions have surpassed the WHO standards at a district hospital in Ghana; time to implement stewardship!
- Blood culture and drug susceptibility testing at the Ho Teaching Hospital: too little, too late.
- Four in ten patients are not prescribed antibiotics as recommended in standard treatment guidelines for uncomplicated urinary tract infection in a Ghanaian hospital.
- High levels of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in healthy pigs in Ghana: a necessity for prudent measures!
- Presence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in drinking water sources from Accra, Ghana: a need for additional water treatment.
- Healthy under-five children in day care centres of Accra, Ghana, harbour multidrug resistant bacteria in their nasopharynx: A Call for Further Research!
- High levels of antimicrobial resistant bacteria found in effluents from seafood processing facilities in Tema, Ghana: A call for a One Health approach to tackle AMR!
- Sepsis among neonates in a Ghanaian tertiary military hospital: Culture results and turnaround times
- High empirical antimicrobial use despite widespread AMR in suspected neonatal sepsis in a Teaching Hospital in Ghana
- Critical levels of contamination in wells and standpipes at household water points in Freetown – A call to Action
- A sewage plant is 99% efficient in eliminating bacteria in Accra, Ghana: time to scale up and do more!
- High levels of antibiotic-resistant organisms in two rivers in Ghana - a need to improve waste disposal
- High levels of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in the air we breathe in Accra: the urgent need to strengthen surveillance
- Veterinary clinics in Ghana need guidelines and improved surveillance data on antimicrobial use.
Watch lightening presentations: Ghana National SORT IT on Antimicrobial Resistance
Nepal
- Good compliance with surgical antibiotic prophylaxis, but more to be done, in a referral hospital in Nepal
- Good infection prevention and control works: low level of healthcare associated infections in a tertiary hospital in Nepal
- High drug resistance to PABS in sputum samples from an intensive care unit in Nepal
- High levels of multidrug-resistance in urinary tract infections and inefficient use of laboratory resources at a tertiary hospital in Nepal: Action is needed
- High prevalence of multi-drug resistant Urinary Tract Infections in a tertiary care hospital in Kathmandu
- High success with shorter treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Nepal
- Increasing use of injectable antibiotics in Patan Hospital: a cause for concern!
- Methicillin resistant bacteria: A cause of concern in Nepal
- New evidence of high infection and mortality rates with antibiotic- resistant Acinetobacter in a tertiary hospital in Nepal
- Patients with multidrug resistant infections denied ear surgery: newer antibiotics needed
- Time to curb resistant urinary pathogens at a district level hospital in Nepal
- Too little too late; low blood culture yields of neonatal sepsis in a tertiary hospital in Nepal
- High antibiotic use in poultry farms in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal: high time for National guidelines
- Improving Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Nepal
- High antimicrobial resistance among cancer patients with urinary tract infection in Nepal
- The use of ampicillin monotherapy remains appropriate in children with pneumonia at Patan Hospital, Nepal
- Newborn babies with blood infection resistant to antibiotics: national implications
- New Treatment Guidelines for Infectious Entero-Pathogens in Nepal? Evidence of resistance amongst commonly used antibiotics in Sukraraj Hospital, Kathmandu
Watch lightening presentations: Nepal National SORT IT on Antimicrobial Resistance - Module 4
Sierra Leone
- Low Culture Requests and High Multi-Drug Resistance: A study among children and pregnant women with suspected urinary tract infections in two tertiary hospitals in Freetown, Sierra Leone
- A Wake-up call to improve country-wide reporting of adverse drug reactions in Sierra Leone
- Infection prevention and control in Sierra Leone: need for a quantum leap forwards
- Clean hands, safe hospitals: a call for action to improve hand hygiene practices in tertiary hospitals in Sierra Leone
- Significant gaps in infection prevention and control at points of entry in Sierra Leone, 2021: a wake-up call
- Gaps in hand hygiene implementation in 13 public hospitals in Sierra Leone
- Livestock disease surveillance in Sierra Leone: Significant improvement but gaps remain in data quality and use of antimicrobials
- Overuse of post-operative antibiotics at the Bo regional hospital in Sierra Leone: a call for systematic monitoring and training to reduce the antimicrobial resistance
- High levels of resistance against critically important antibiotics from fresh poultry excreta in Sierra Leone
- Critical levels of contamination in wells and standpipes at household water points in Freetown; A call to Action
- Inappropriate use of antibiotics in the management of COVID-19 patients in Sierra Leone
- Increased importation and use of pesticides in Sierra Leone may lead to a possible increase in antimicrobial resistance
- First national assessment of antibiotic consumption in Sierra Leone: how do we address zero consumption of last resort antibiotics?
- Gaps in Infection Prevention and Control in Sierra Leone after the 2014–2015 Ebola Outbreak: a call for financial and material resources
- Laboratory challenges worsen AMR risks: Evidence from Two Referral Hospitals in Free-Town, Sierra Leone (2017–2019)
- Urgent Need for Data on the use of antibiotics in Livestock in Sierra Leone
Watch lightening presentations: Sierra Leone National SORT IT on Antimicrobial Resistance - Module 4
Uganda
- High Use of Ampicillin/Cloxacillin and Watch Antibiotics in Health Care Facilities in Uganda
- Increasing AMR at Uganda's National Referral Hospital - Requires Urgent Action
- The quality of laboratory blood culture testing at five regional hospitals in Uganda needs to be improved
- Urgent action is required to strengthen Infection Prevention and Control at Lira University Hospital in Uganda
See the full publications in the special issues below
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