RT Journal Article
T1 Non-Clinical Factors Determining the Prescription of Antibiotics by Veterinarians: A Systematic Review
A1 Servia Dopazo, Miguel
A1 Taracido Trunk, Margarita
A1 Figueiras Guzmán, Adolfo
K1 Veterinarians
K1 Antibiotic resistance
K1 Antibiotic prescription
K1 One health
K1 Animal health
K1 Infection control
K1 Antibiotic stewardship
AB The misuse of antibiotics in humans, animals, and plants is related to the spread of resistant antibiotic strains among humans and animals. In this paper, we carry out a bibliographic search of Medline, Web of Knowledge, and Cab Abstracts with the main objective of ascertaining the available evidence on non-clinical factors and attitudes that could influence the prescription of antibiotics by veterinarians. A total of 34 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Whereas, veterinary health professionals’ prescribing habits did not appear to be influenced by their socio-demographic characteristics, they were influenced by different attitudes, such as fear (identified in 19 out of 34 studies), self-confidence (19/34), business factors (19/34), and by complacency (16/34). Certain owner-related factors, such as lack of awareness (16/34) and demand for antibiotics (12/34), were also important, as were concurrent factors, ranging from a lack of appropriate regulations (10/34) to the expense and delays involved in performing culture and sensitivity tests (10/34) and inadequate farm hygiene (8/34). Our results appear to indicate that the non-clinical factors are potentially modifiable. This may be useful for designing interventions targeted at improving antibiotic use in animals, as part of an overall strategy to reduce the global spread of multi-resistant strains
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24450
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24450
LA eng
NO Antibiotics 2021, 10(2), 133; https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10020133
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026