Evaluation of rational use of medicines (RUM) in four government hospitals in UAE

Mahmood, Amal; Elnour, Asim Ahmed; Ali, Abdel Azim Ahmed; Hassan, Nageeb; Shehab, Abdulla; Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth

doi:10.1016/j.jsps.2015.03.003

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“…The study recommended creation of awareness among health personnel. The limitation of the study was that it did not cover all public hospitals and did not include private hospital where the outcome was expected to differ in all aspects of prescribing indicators [7]. Babalola C.P et al conducted retrospective analysis on written prescriptions by various cadres in primary Healthcare department of Osun state (southwest), Nigeria.…”

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A Study of the Paediatric Prescriptions at the Tertiary Care Hospital in Oman

2020

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A drug is a chemical substance that is intended to be used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being. The use of drugs by humans is as old as the history of humanity itself. Antibiotics are widely used nowadays. An antibiotic can be defined as a substance that destroys or inhibits the growth of other microorganism and is used in the treatment of external or internal infections. The major types of antibiotics that are commonly used include beta lactams, cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, macrolides, carbapenems, quinolones, tetracyclines and polymyxins.

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A Study of the Paediatric Prescriptions at the Tertiary Care Hospital in Oman

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“…It may be advocated that generally the physicians in Turkey, more prominently the FPs, tend to practice polypharmacy, compared with the results of the published studies conducted in various Asian countries, reporting NDPPs between 2.08-2.91. 12,[30][31][32][33] Prescription without PE is the leading unfavorable practice performed by the physicians in terms of RUM. Writing a prescription to the patient without performing the required PE, and hence skipping confirmation of the diagnosis is an unacceptable attitude regarding RUM.…”

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Evaluation of the Attitudes and Experiences of the Family Physicians and Specialists Relating to Provided Treatments in Terms of Rational Use of Medicine

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Tamirci

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“…The WHO prescribing indicators have been used to measure the performance of health facilities against a set national target or used to compare performance of similarly structured health institutions within a region11 or internationally. These indicators give a summary of the prescribing habits of an institution.…”

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The influence of physicians’ specialty on prescribing patterns at a general medi-cine out-patients clinic

Ofori-Adjei

Fiakpornoo

2019

Ghana Medical Journal

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SummaryBackgroundSeveral factors have been identified that influence physicians' prescribing habits. The influence of physician's specialty has not been studied. This study is to determine if there are differences in the prescribing patterns amongst these various specialities that run a general medicine clinic at a tertiary hospital in Ghana.MethodsData collected from the out-patients clinic attendance records were analysed using WHO Rational Use of Medicines indicators. Analysis of Variance Test was carried out to establish if there was any variance in the prescribing indicators amongst 4 units of Physicians.Results678 patient encounters were utilised for this study. The average number of drugs prescribed per encounter was 4.4, drugs prescribed by generic name was 86.9%, patient encounters in which antibiotics prescribed were 6.5% (n= 44) and injections were prescribed in 3.2% (n=22) of patient encounters. 64.0% of all drugs prescribed were from the Ghanaian EML. The unit of the physician did not have a significant effect on the average number of medicines prescribed per patient encounter (F (3, 674) = 2.19, p = 0.088), and the percentage of medicines that were prescribed from the Essential Medicines List (F (3, 674) = 1.52, p = 0.207). The unit the physician belonged to however did have a significant effect at p < 0.05 on the prescription of generic medications (F (3, 674) = 4.79, p = 0.003).ConclusionThe physician units did not differ in their prescribing patterns at the general medicine clinic except for prescription of drugs by their generic names.FundingNone declared

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Evaluation of rational use of medicines (RUM) in four government hospitals in UAE

Abstract: Strategies and interventions are desirable to promote RUM and minimize the consequences of poly-pharmacy.

Cited by 69 publications

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A Study of the Paediatric Prescriptions at the Tertiary Care Hospital in Oman

A Study of the Paediatric Prescriptions at the Tertiary Care Hospital in Oman

Evaluation of the Attitudes and Experiences of the Family Physicians and Specialists Relating to Provided Treatments in Terms of Rational Use of Medicine

The influence of physicians’ specialty on prescribing patterns at a general medi-cine out-patients clinic

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