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The magnitude of prescribing medicines by brand names at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania [PDF]

Medicine Access @ Point of Care, 2020
Background: Tanzania National Treatment Guidelines and National Therapeutic Committee circular of 2012 requires prescribers to prescribe medicines using their generic names as recommended by the World Health Organization.
Ombeni Kisamo, Manase Kilonzi, Wigilya P Mikomangwa, George M Bwire, Hamu J Mlyuka, Alphonce I Marealle, Ritah F Mutagonda   +6 more
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Prescription Audit in Outpatient Pharmacy of a Tertiary Care Referral Hospital in Haryana Using World Health Organization/International Network of Rational Use of Drugs (WHO/INRUD) Core Prescribing Indicators: A Step Towards Refining Drug Use and Patient Care [PDF]

Pharmacy
Background: The evaluation of internationally comparable indicators of medicine use is important to devise strategies to promote the rational use of medicines (RUM).
Nikhil Verma, Shanmugapriya Vinayagam, Niti Mittal, Rakesh Mittal, Neeraj Bansal   +4 more
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Indication alerts intercept drug name confusion errors during computerized entry of medication orders. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Confusion between similar drug names is a common cause of potentially harmful medication errors. Interventions to prevent these errors at the point of prescribing have had limited success. The purpose of this study is to measure whether indication alerts
William L Galanter, Michelle L Bryson, Suzanne Falck, Rachel Rosenfield, Marci Laragh, Neeha Shrestha, Gordon D Schiff, Bruce L Lambert   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Compliance with Good Practice in Prescription Writing at Private Clinics In Basra City; Southern of Iraq.

The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016
Background: Prescription order and information on it; represent the key for reach of safe and effective medications to the patient, and the clarity of its information is important to prevent medications errors that may be lethal to the patient ...
Dawood Ch. Helayel, Jubran K. Hassan, Yasar A.H. Dawood   +2 more
doaj   +6 more sources

Assessment of Legibility of Handwritten Prescriptions and Adherence to W.H.O. Prescription Writing Guidelines in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Zaria – Kaduna State, Nigeria

INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2023
Introduction: The issues of incorrectness and incompleteness for written prescriptions may result to dispensing errors and unintended outcomes of care. The objective of the study was to assess the legibility of handwritten prescriptions and adherence to
Abba Khalid Abdullahi, Ibrahim Seneire Fatima, Umar Abdurrahman, Salihu Isa Sa’adatu, Abubakar Bukhari Hafsat, Haruna Abdullahi Abdulrasheed, Umar Abubakar, Igashi Dorcas, Sanni Hameed Kehinde, Adam Ibrahim Bashir, Muhammad Kabir Musa   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Critical evaluation of promotional drug literature based on the WHO criteria

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2022
Background: Pharmaceutical companies use drug promotional literature (DPL) as an important mode to promote their products and it also influences the prescribing behavior of prescribers.
Sameer Pandit, Rhythm
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of prescription completeness, rational drug-use patterns using WHO prescribing, patient-care and facility indicators in Debre Tabor Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

SAGE Open Medicine, 2022
Objective: Irrational medicine use results in diseases worsening, disability, death, and wastage of limited resources. This study was predominantly aimed to evaluate the rationality of medicine use patterns by assessing prescribing, patient-care, and ...
Yohannes Shumet Yimer, Getu Tesfaw Addis, Muluken Adela Alemu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

PRESCRIBING BY GENERIC NAME: PROS AND CONS

, 2023
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Tapan Kumar mahato, Sunil Kumar Ojha, Vikash agnihotri, Saurabh Sharma, Ankur patel   +4 more
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Evaluation of Prescribing Indicators in a Paediatric Population Seen in an Outpatient Consultation at the Gaspard Kamara Health Centre in 2019 (Senegal)

Pharmacy, 2021
Introduction: Data on drug use in paediatrics are scarce in Senegal. The objective of this study was to assess the prescribing indicators in a paediatric population seen in an outpatient consultation at a Health Centre in Dakar, Senegal.
Oumar Bassoum, Mouhamadou Faly Ba, Ndèye Marème Sougou, Djibril Fall, Adama Faye   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drug utilization study in post-operative cases of obstetrics and gynecology department in a tertiary care hospital

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2022
Background: After any surgery, drugs are prescribed for analgesia, prevention of infection, nausea, vomiting, and to maintain the hemodynamic status.
Krishna Sowmya Balla, Amirunnisa Begum Md, Shailendra D, Kalpana B   +3 more
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