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Table 3 Theme 'Antibiotic management contributing to the development and spread of resistance'

From: Antibiotic use, resistance development and environmental factors: a qualitative study among healthcare professionals in Orissa, India

 

Antibiotic management contributing to the development and spread of resistance

Categories

Antibiotics use and factors influencing prescribing

Health systems and policy factors influencing resistance

Sub-categories

Humans

Animals

Patients

Health systems and professionals

Policy and regulatory issues

Codes

Broad and narrow spectrum

"Higher" antibiotics

High loads of patients

Prior prescribers

Unqualified medical providers

Influence of pharmacy company

Therapeutic uses

Prophylactic uses

Antibiotics as growth promoter

Uses in poultry

Uses in dairy farming

Noncompliance

Self-medication

Poverty

Ignorance

Lack of awareness

Inadequate prescription

Irrational use

Improper diagnosis

Lack of infrastructure

Fake and Low-quality medicine

Without prescription

Weak implementations of policy