Summary: Enhanced Communication Skills With Patients

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Hello Bassey,

I strongly agree that the measures you have provided (“improved diagnostics with point of care test, enhanced communication skills with patients, promoting delayed prescribing of antibiotics, antimicrobial stewardship programs, campaigns and audits” will help to improve prescribing of antibiotics”) will help improve antibiotic usage (Llor and Bjerrum, 2014). You mentioned provider and patient relationships can be “damaged” if under treatment is provided. According to Ventimiglia (2017), doctors may face concise amount of time (estimated 10-20 minutes) with their patient’s due to their busy schedules. With a condensed appointment time, doctors then feel like that they should prescribe antibiotics or other medications to quickly

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