prescribing indicators
<p>Prescribing Pattern of Antibiotics Using WHO Prescribing Indicators Among Inpatients in Ethiopia: A Need for Antibiotic Stewardship Program</p>
... Out of 1571 inpatients in the hospital, a total of 1653 anti- biotics were prescribed for 822 (52.3%, 95% CI 48.2–54.4%) patients. The average (mean±SD) number of prescribed anti- biotics per patient was found to be ...
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Investigation of prescribing behavior at outpatient settings of governmental hospitals in eastern Ethiopia: an overall evaluation beyond World Health Organization core prescribing indicators
... rational prescribing remains an important component of treating patients as this may be a reflection of the quality of care delivered to them and the community at large [1, ...for prescribing, patient care ...
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Prescription auditing based on World Health Organization (WHO) prescribing indicators: A case of Dilla University referral hospital
... The study was conducted at Dilla university referral hospital, Dilla town, south Ethiopia with the catchment population of nearly 2 million people. Well-trained pharmacy personnel collected data on prescribing ...
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Drug safety in pregnancy: Assessment by FDA Safety Rating system and WHO prescribing Indicators
... The prescribing indicators had shown that percentage of prescribed injections and antibiotics were 76 % and 44% which were greater when compared to the standard set by WHO ...
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ASSESSMENT OF PRESCRIBING PATTERN AMONG ORTHOPEDIC IN PATIENTS USING WHO PRESCRIBING INDICATORS
... core prescribing indicators ...of prescribing indicators, taken from the WHOs guide for the assessment of prescribing indicators was as follows: ...
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Evaluation of trends of drug-prescribing patterns based on WHO prescribing indicators at outpatient departments of four hospitals in southern Ethiopia
... in prescribing antibiotics and injectable medi- cations requires special ...and prescribing drugs that are not in the EDL for Ethiopia in present study were not exaggerated, though there was a slight ...
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Assessment of Antimicrobial Use Pattern Using World Health Organization Prescribing Indicators at a Tertiary Hospital: A Prospective, Observational study
... The study observations showed that the hospital did have the standard treatment guidelines (STGS) for 50 different infectious diseases. In addition, It was observed that an approved hospital formulary list exists in the ...
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Drug utilisation study in a tertiary care center: Recommendations for improving hospital drug dispensing policies
... drug prescribing indicators including (a) average number of drugs per encounter, (b) percentage of drugs prescribed by generic names, (c) percentage of encounters with an antibiotic, (d) percentage of ...
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A Study on Evaluating Prescriptions in Emergency Unit of Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital Based on Who Prescribing Indicator
... These indicators can be used efficiently in many settings of drug use study to detect problems in drug prescribing such as polypharmacy, inclination for branded products, over use of antibiotics or ...
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Investigation of antimicrobial use at a tertiary care hospital in Southern Punjab, Pakistan using WHO methodology
... hospital indicators, a formulary list or essential medicines list (FL/EML) was available, but standard treatment guidelines (STGs) for infectious diseases was ...the prescribing indicators, the ...
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Assessment of drug utilization in hospitalized children at a tertiary care teaching hospital
... The present study was done to analyze drug utilization among Paediatric inpatients and to assess WHO prescribing indicators. A prospective, observational study was conducted in Department of Paediatrics at ...
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DRUG UTILIZATION STUDY IN OUTPATIENT OPHTHALMOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN WEST BENGAL
... the prescribing practices of ophthalmologists in a tertiary care teaching ...use indicators are highly standardized and are recommended for inclusion in drug utilization studies ...current ...
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Investigation of drug use at primary health centres in Nashik, Maharashtra, India
... drug indicators; i.e. prescribing indicators, patient-care indicators and health facility ...WHO indicators were used to investigate drug use that may help to resolve the problem ...
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DRUG PRESCRIBING PATTERN AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY DEPARTMENT IN A RURAL TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL
... By the use of WHO prescribing indicators, the prescribing pattern was evaluated. It was found out that 574 drugs were prescribed to the subjects and on an average, each prescription contained 3.82 ...
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Prescribing patterns of encounters in fourteen general practice clinics in rural Beijing: a cross sectional study
... and prescribing indica- tors. The differences in prescribing patterns were ana- lyzed by Mann-Whitney U test (for comparing medians between two groups), Kruskal-Wallis test (for comparing medians among over ...
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Prescription Pattern in A Medical Icu of A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of South India
... Patients who are admitted in ICU’s (Intensive Care Unit) are usually seriously ill, often suffer from multiple chronic illnesses and drug usage is also quite extensive. Due to resource restraints in providing quality ...
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Prescribing Pattern in Acute Gastroenteritis among Pediatric Patients an a Teaching Hospital
... According to WHO prescribing indicators, average number of drugs per encounter was 4.5, percentage of drugs prescribed by generic name was 7.9%, and percentage of encounter with an antibiotic prescribed was ...
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Retrospective Study on Co-prescription Patterns of Antacids for Outpatients, Woreta Health Center North West Ethiopia
... antacid prescribing and to analyze co prescribing patterns of antacids in Woreta Health Center ...of prescribing pattern was carried out using prescription records in the health center pharmacies to ...
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Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science
... The study was conducted on 140 out patients and 4 health facilities including outpatient pharmacies, patient consultation times, and last year prescription records review of each facility based on WHO drug evaluation ...
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PATTERN OF PRESCRIPTION OF PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS IN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL USELU, BENIN CITY, NIGERIA
... well-designed prescribing indicator proforma was used in data ...WHO prescribing indicators were used in evaluating the prescription pattern in the health facility, namely, average number of drug per ...
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