ENHANCE: a global collaborative research programme investigating the role of homeopathy in antimicrobial stewardship
Esther van der Werf · 2026
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Van der Werf, in 2026, describes a research programme testing whether homeopathy can help cut antibiotic use. ENHANCE, an international collaboration founded in 2023, responds to antimicrobial resistance, with primary care responsible for roughly eighty percent of human antibiotic consumption. Existing homeopathy literature hints at reduced antibiotic use in people and animals, but the author acknowledges it is heterogeneous and methodologically weak.
The programme runs five workstreams, from population studies and literature monitoring to condition-specific reviews, core outcome sets, and new primary research. Completed outputs include reviews on ear infection and tonsillitis and the first core outcome set for acute childhood ear infections agreed internationally. A representative United Kingdom survey found about five percent of the population, some 2.7 million people, use homeopathic products. Trials and real-world studies for primary care are now being designed.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Esther van der Werf |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |