Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: A vignette-based, prep-post pilot study in Patna, India

Authors

• Poshan Thapa, McGill University
• Prachi Shukla, World Health Partners
• Chandrashekhar Joshi, World Health Partners
• Sena Sayood, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Pradeep Kumar Sinha, World Health Partners
• Diwash Timilsina, Swansea University
• Mili Dutta, World Health Partners
• Madhukar Pai, McGill University
• Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, McGill University
• Sumanth Gandra, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Journal

Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Publication Date

3-27-2026

Volume

15

Issue

1

First Page

67

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1186/s13756-026-01735-6

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Thapa, P., Shukla, P., Joshi, C. et al. Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: a vignette-based, prep–post pilot study in Patna, India. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 15, 67 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-026-01735-6 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Recommended Citation

Thapa, Poshan; Shukla, Prachi; Joshi, Chandrashekhar; Sayood, Sena; Sinha, Pradeep Kumar; Timilsina, Diwash; Dutta, Mili; Pai, Madhukar; Rahimi, Samira Abbasgholizadeh; and Gandra, Sumanth, "Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: A vignette-based, prep-post pilot study in Patna, India." Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control. 15, 1. 67 (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/7339

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)

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