quantitative and qualitative evaluation of drug prescriptions in south tehran, shahre rey and islamshahr

improper drug prescription by physicians due to wrong diagnosis, wrong drug choise or other causes will waste national funds. the annual drug costs in iran is 900 billions rials. with approvement of prescription, it can be reduced to 500 billions rials. effective factors in costs reduction are: 1) increasing medical knowledge and persistent education of physicians. 2) spending more time for each visit. 3) giving more information to physicians about pharmacological compounds. 4) teaching symptoms and signs of the common diseases and proper diagnosis of them. 5) checking the prescriptions of physicians.