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A prescription audit using the World Health Organization-recommended core drug use indicators in a rural hospital of Delhi
INTRODUCTION: The inappropriate use of drugs is a global health problem, especially in developing country like India. Irrational prescriptions have an ill effect on health as well as health-care expenditure. Prescription auditing is an important tool to improve the quality of prescriptions, which in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6432812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30993130 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_90_18 |
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author | Singh, Tulika Banerjee, Bratati Garg, Suneela Sharma, Sanju |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The inappropriate use of drugs is a global health problem, especially in developing country like India. Irrational prescriptions have an ill effect on health as well as health-care expenditure. Prescription auditing is an important tool to improve the quality of prescriptions, which in turn improves the quality of health care provided. The present study was conducted to investigate the rational use of drugs for completeness, legibility, and against the World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended core drug use indicators. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional, outpatient department-based study was carried out in a rural hospital of Delhi wherein 120 prescriptions were randomly sampled, irrespective of patient characteristics and diagnosis over a period of 1 month. All the prescriptions were analyzed for general details, medical components, and WHO core drug use indicators. The data obtained were summed up and presented as descriptive statistics using the Microsoft Excel and were analyzed using SPSS version 16. RESULTS: All the prescriptions had general details mentioned in it. The diagnosis was mentioned in 64.2% of prescriptions, and 85.8% of drugs were prescribed by generic name. An average of 3.02 drugs per encounter was prescribed. The average consultation time and dispensing time were 2.8 min and 1.2 min, respectively. Only half of the patients had correct knowledge of dose. CONCLUSIONS: Our study highlights the need to train our prescribing doctors on writing rational prescriptions for quality improvement. |
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spelling | pubmed-64328122019-04-16 A prescription audit using the World Health Organization-recommended core drug use indicators in a rural hospital of Delhi Singh, Tulika Banerjee, Bratati Garg, Suneela Sharma, Sanju J Educ Health Promot Original Article INTRODUCTION: The inappropriate use of drugs is a global health problem, especially in developing country like India. Irrational prescriptions have an ill effect on health as well as health-care expenditure. Prescription auditing is an important tool to improve the quality of prescriptions, which in turn improves the quality of health care provided. The present study was conducted to investigate the rational use of drugs for completeness, legibility, and against the World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended core drug use indicators. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional, outpatient department-based study was carried out in a rural hospital of Delhi wherein 120 prescriptions were randomly sampled, irrespective of patient characteristics and diagnosis over a period of 1 month. All the prescriptions were analyzed for general details, medical components, and WHO core drug use indicators. The data obtained were summed up and presented as descriptive statistics using the Microsoft Excel and were analyzed using SPSS version 16. RESULTS: All the prescriptions had general details mentioned in it. The diagnosis was mentioned in 64.2% of prescriptions, and 85.8% of drugs were prescribed by generic name. An average of 3.02 drugs per encounter was prescribed. The average consultation time and dispensing time were 2.8 min and 1.2 min, respectively. Only half of the patients had correct knowledge of dose. CONCLUSIONS: Our study highlights the need to train our prescribing doctors on writing rational prescriptions for quality improvement. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6432812/ /pubmed/30993130 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_90_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Education and Health Promotion http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Singh, Tulika Banerjee, Bratati Garg, Suneela Sharma, Sanju A prescription audit using the World Health Organization-recommended core drug use indicators in a rural hospital of Delhi |
title | A prescription audit using the World Health Organization-recommended core drug use indicators in a rural hospital of Delhi |
title_full | A prescription audit using the World Health Organization-recommended core drug use indicators in a rural hospital of Delhi |
title_fullStr | A prescription audit using the World Health Organization-recommended core drug use indicators in a rural hospital of Delhi |
title_full_unstemmed | A prescription audit using the World Health Organization-recommended core drug use indicators in a rural hospital of Delhi |
title_short | A prescription audit using the World Health Organization-recommended core drug use indicators in a rural hospital of Delhi |
title_sort | prescription audit using the world health organization-recommended core drug use indicators in a rural hospital of delhi |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6432812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30993130 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_90_18 |
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