WHO prescribing indicators
Evaluation of trends of drug-prescribing patterns based on WHO prescribing indicators at outpatient departments of four hospitals in southern Ethiopia
... the WHO prescribing ...acceptable WHO standard in prescribing antibiotics and injectable medi- cations requires special ...and prescribing drugs that are not in the EDL for Ethiopia in ...
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AN EVALUATION OF DRUG USE PATTERNS IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME PATIENTS USING WHO PRESCRIBING INDICATORS
... Identifying polypharmacy, promoting the rational drug use and increasing the standard of medical treatment all these play a crucial role in improving therapeutic outcomes and the quality of life.The present study was ...
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ASSESSMENT OF PRESCRIBING PATTERN AMONG ORTHOPEDIC IN PATIENTS USING WHO PRESCRIBING INDICATORS
... The WHO core prescribing indicators measure the performance of health-care providers in various dimensions related to the appropriate use of ...the WHO prescribing indicators, ...
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Drug safety in pregnancy: Assessment by FDA Safety Rating system and WHO prescribing Indicators
... trimester, who visited the antenatal care department which is likewise to the study by Prasanand Sasidharan et al 4 in which most of the women ...trimester who visited the antenatal care ...
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Prescription auditing based on World Health Organization (WHO) prescribing indicators: A case of Dilla University referral hospital
... This indicator study is restricted to encounters of ambulatory patients of all categories of diseases and age groups and were critically analyzed. The sample was selected using a systematic random sampling method, and ...
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Measuring quallity of drug use in primary health care facilities: a year long assessment of who prescribing indicators, wolkite town, south west ethiopia
... drug prescribing pattern in private and public health facilities in Wolkite town, South West ...drug prescribing indicators from January 1 to December 31, 2011, in 11 private and public health ...
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Assessment of drug prescription practice using who prescribing indicators in Felege Hiwot referral hospital (FHRH) outpatient department, North Ethiopia
... the prescribing practices with the aim of making the medical care rational and cost ...These indicators help us to improve our performance from time to time [5, ...irrational prescribing, as ...
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Assessment of drug use pattern using WHO prescribing indicators at Hawassa University teaching and referral hospital, south Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
... the WHO document “How to investigate drug use in health facilities,” at least 600 encounters should be included in a cross-sectional survey to describe the current prescribing practices, with a greater ...
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<p>Prescribing Pattern of Antibiotics Using WHO Prescribing Indicators Among Inpatients in Ethiopia: A Need for Antibiotic Stewardship Program</p>
... Ethiopia. 35 This is consistent with the study conducted in Eritrea, 27 in which all (100%) of antibiotics were pre- scribed from the national EML. This could be explained by the fact that public hospitals in Ethiopia ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...following WHO prescribing indicators were used in evaluating the prescription pattern in the health facility, namely, average ...
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EVALUATION OF PRESCRIBING PATTERN OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS IN A MULTISPECIALTY TEACHING HOSPITAL
... patients who receives tablets (60%) comparatively more than parenteral dosage forms because in our study more number of patients is capable to take oral dosage ...
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Prescribing pattern of antidepressant drugs in a tertiary care hospital of eastern India
... on WHO estimation, in high income and middle income countries, unipolar depressive disorders will attain respectively the 1st and 2nd rank of burden of disease in 2030 ...the prescribing attitude of ...
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Investigation of antimicrobial use at a tertiary care hospital in Southern Punjab, Pakistan using WHO methodology
... high prescribing rates of these antimicrobials may include better clinical outcomes and excessive stock, or this might be the result of excessive and effective marketing strategies of pharmaceutical ...
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A retrospective comparison of inappropriate prescribing of psychotropics in three Norwegian nursing homes in 2000 and 2016 with prescribing quality indicators
... Clinicians prescribing serotonin re- uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can expect to be warned about 1000 interaction drugs where the majority have little or no evidence of an ...
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Methods to identify the target population: implications for prescribing quality indicators
... for prescribing qual- ity ...patients who could benefit from the recom- mended treatment, the use of clinical measurements is more sensitive to screen for poorly treated ...for prescribing quality ...
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... Drug utilization studies are powerful tools to ascertain the role of drugs in the society [11]. They provide a sound socio-medical and health economic basis for health care decision making. To achieve this, it is very ...
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A pilot qualitative study to explore stakeholder opinions regarding prescribing quality indicators
... the indicators to motivate health care providers to participate in health improvement ...of prescribing quality ...using prescribing quality ...not prescribing the recommended treatment and ...
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