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      <journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">archivepp.com</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Archives of Pharmacy Practice</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2320-5210</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">archivepp.com-1200</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.51847/XOjFB9Irta</article-id>
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          <subject>Case report</subject>
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        <article-title>Dispensing of Antibiotics without Prescription in Community Pharmacy in Baghdad, Iraq</article-title>
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                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Alkadhimi</surname>
                <given-names>Akram</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                                            <xref rid="cor1" ref-type="corresp" />
                          </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Dawood</surname>
                <given-names>Omar Thanoon</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Khan</surname>
                <given-names>Amer Hayat</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
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                  <aff id="aff1">
            <label>1</label>Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff2">
            <label>2</label>College of Pharmacy, Ninevah University, Mosul, Iraq.
          </aff>
                          <author-notes>
            <corresp id="cor1">
              <bold>Address for correspondence:</bold> Prof. Wael Abu Dayyih, Department of
              Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mutah University, Al-Karak 61710, Jordan.
                              E-mail: <email xlink:href="akram.alkadhimi@gmail.com">akram.alkadhimi@gmail.com</email>
                          </corresp>
          </author-notes>
                    <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>18</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>15</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>17</fpage>
      <lpage>22</lpage>
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      <abstract>
        <title>A<sc>BSTRACT</sc></title>
        <p>This study aimed to evaluate the pattern of dispensing antibiotics without a prescription in a community pharmacy in Baghdad, as well as to understand the factors influencing the dispensing of antibiotics without a prescription. A cross-sectional study was conducted among community pharmacists to describe the dispensing of antibiotics in community pharmacies. The convenience sampling method was applied to select the required sample from a community pharmacy in Baghdad. A self-administered questionnaire was used to obtain the data from the participants. The majority of community pharmacists (94.2%) dispensed antibiotics without a prescription in their community pharmacy. Most of them (59.6%) reported that oral antibiotics were the most common form dispensed without a prescription. In addition, 23.6% of participants reported that they also dispensed parenteral antibiotics without a prescription. The highest percent of antibiotics dispensed without prescription were for UTIs (94.2%), sore throat (70.9%), and earache (70.3%). The most common dispensed antibiotics without prescription were Amoxicillin (96.9%) Amoxicillin/ Clavulanate (88.2%), Cephalexin (70.6%), Ceftriaxone (61.2%), Cefixime (67.7%), Ciprofloxacin (87.4%), Azithromycin (94.2%), and Metronidazole (85.6%). This study showed that community pharmacists were commonly dispensing antibiotics without a prescription at community pharmacies. Therefore, rigorous rules are needed to control the sale of antibiotics in community pharmacies. </p>
      </abstract>
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                <kwd>Antibiotics</kwd>
                <kwd>Dispensing</kwd>
                <kwd>Pattern</kwd>
                <kwd>Prescription</kwd>
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