Antimicrobial stewardship capacity and antibiotic utilisation practices in the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana: A point prevalence survey study

• Elizabeth Agyare ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth Agyare, Joseph Elikem Efui Acolatse

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

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• Joseph Elikem Efui Acolatse ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth Agyare, Joseph Elikem Efui Acolatse

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j.acolatse@ccth.gov.gh (JEEA); brian.godman@smu.ac.za (BG)

  Affiliation Research and Development Unit, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6556-3208

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• Mavis Puopelle Dakorah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Department, Bacteriology Unit, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

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• George Akafity,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research and Development Unit, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

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• Victoria J. Chalker,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Services, National Health Service Blood and Transplant, London, United Kingdom

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• Owen B. Spiller,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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• Kristan Alexander Schneider,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Hochschule Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany

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• Saviour Yevutsey,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Antimicrobial Resistance Secretariat, Office of Pharmaceutical Services, Ministry of Health, Accra, Ghana

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• Nana Benyin Aidoo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research and Development Unit, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

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• Sophia Blankson,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Directorate of Nursing Services, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

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• Frederick Mensah-Acheampong,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Directorate of Administrative Services, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

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• Robert Incoom,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pharmacy Directorate, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

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• Amanj Kurdi,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5036-1988

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• Brian Godman ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j.acolatse@ccth.gov.gh (JEEA); brian.godman@smu.ac.za (BG)

  Affiliations Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Centre of Medical and Bio-allied Health Sciences Research, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates, Department of Public Health Pharmacy and Management, School of Pharmacy, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6539-6972

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• Eric Kofi Ngyedu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Directorate of Administrative Services, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

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