WHO/INRUD drug prescribing indicators at primary health care centres in Eastern province, Saudi Arabia / El Mahalli, A.A.
Tác giả : El Mahalli, A.A.
Năm xuất bản : 2012
Chủ đề : 1. Cohort Studies. 2. Drug Prescriptions. 3. Pharmaceutical Preparations. 4. Primary Health Care. 5. Retrospective Studies. 6. World Health Organization.
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Tóm tắt : | 1091-1096 Appropriate use of drugs is an essential element in achieving quality of health and medical care for patients and the community as a whole. This study aimed to measure the drug prescribing performance of primary health care centres in Eastern province, Saudi Arabia, using the WHO/International Network of Rational Use of Drugs core drug prescribing indicators. In a retrospective cohort study 10 health centres were selected using systematic random sampling. A total of 1000 prescribing encounters were investigated from January to December 2010. Mean values were: number of drugs per encounter 2.4 [optimal =?3], drugs prescribed by generic name 61.2% [optimal 100%], encounters with antibiotic prescribed 32.2% [optimal =30%], encounters with injection prescribed 2% [optimal =10%] and drugs prescribed from the national essential drugs list or facility formulary 99.2% [optimal 100%]. An overall index of rational drug prescribing was calculated and applied to rank the health centres for benchmarking |
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https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/118483 |