Evidence of the Practice of Self-Medication with Antibiotics among the Lay Public in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review

• Main Authors: Adeel Aslam (Author), Márió Gajdács (Author), Che Suraya Zin (Author), Norny Syafinaz Ab Rahman (Author), Syed Imran Ahmed (Author), Muhammad Zeeshan Zafar (Author), Shazia Jamshed (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The current scoping review is an attempt to explore the key reasons, determinants, patterns and prevalence related to self-medication with antibiotics (SMA) among the lay public. An online search was conducted using Google Scholar, Science Direct, ProQuest and PubMed. A two-phase mapping approach wa...