Driving factors and barriers to irrational antibiotic prescribing in Pakistan: a qualitative study of physicians’, pharmacists’ and nurses’ perspectives in public and private hospitals
Muhammad Ebad Khan, Emmama Jamil, Muhammad Abubakar, Asma Javed, Danish Abbas, Eman Nawaz, Bilal Atiq, Batool Haider Razi, Abdul Rehman Saeed, Husnain Rasool, Marya Zubair, Haider Rasool, Shahid Wali Khan, Anmol Shoul, Azra Batool, Muhammad Usman Khan, Matti Ullah · 2026
Read Driving factors and barriers to irrational antibiotic prescribing in Pakistan: a qualitative study of physicians’, pharmacists’ and nurses’ perspectives in public and private hospitals by Muhammad Ebad Khan, Emmama Jamil, Muhammad Abubakar, Asma Javed, Danish Abbas, Eman Nawaz, Bilal Atiq, Batool Haider Razi, Abdul Rehman Saeed, Husnain Rasool, Marya Zubair, Haider Rasool, Shahid Wali Khan, Anmol Shoul, Azra Batool, Muhammad Usman Khan, Matti Ullah (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13264854.txt.
Description
Muhammad Ebad Khan led a 2026 interview study on why antibiotics get prescribed without good reason in Pakistan. Poor prescribing fuels drug resistance, a global threat. The team spoke with doctors, pharmacists, and nurses in public and private hospitals to gather causes, barriers, and fixes from the front line.
Sixty staff took part, twenty from each profession. Staff mostly understood the problem well. Causes included prescriber habits, patient pressure, weak oversight, and pharmacists being sidelined. Barriers were money limits, low awareness, and scarce resources. Suggested fixes ran from regular audits and public campaigns to drug use reviews and stronger rules. The authors urge updated guidelines and better teamwork among professions to curb needless antibiotic use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Muhammad Ebad Khan, Emmama Jamil, Muhammad Abubakar, Asma Javed, Danish Abbas, Eman Nawaz, Bilal Atiq, Batool Haider Razi, Abdul Rehman Saeed, Husnain Rasool, Marya Zubair, Haider Rasool, Shahid Wali Khan, Anmol Shoul, Azra Batool, Muhammad Usman Khan, Matti Ullah |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67324 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |