evaluation of drug prescription pattern among general dental practitioners in rasht, iran

Authors

seyed javad kia oro-maxillofacial developmental diseases research center, department of oral medecine, guilan university of medical sciences, dental school, rasht, iran

mahnam behravesh

ali khalighi sigaroudi department of dentomaxillofacial surgery, guilan university of medical sciences, dental school, rasht, iran

abstract

introduction: irrational drug prescription is a controversial issue around the world that inter-feres not only with the patient's life but also with the society and economy. despite few studies, there is no enough data on the prescription ha bits of dental practitioners. so, we aimed at eva luating the same issue in rasht, iran. materials and methods: this cross-sectional re-trospective study reviewing a convenience sam-ple of 850 dental prescriptions selected randomly from social insurance prescriptions assessed for two parameters: the first for who drug indica tors such as the mean number of drugs per pre scription, the percentage of durgs with generic name, the percentage of prescription with anti biotics and injectives, and the second for the pre scription errors. chi-sqaure test was used for analyzing the data. result: the average number of drugs per pre-scription was 2.64±0.85. drugs with generic names constituted 82.9%. 93.8% of prescriptions had at least one antibiotic, whereas 26% had in-jectives. combination of antibiotics and nsaids (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) were the most common prescribed drugs. the mistakes related to drug form, name, quantity, dose, dose interval as well as route of administration were 18.4%, 22.5%, 16.5%, 14%, 39.6%, 94.9% respec tively. average number of drugs, percentage of antibiotics and injectives per prescriptions, mis takes in drug quantity, dose interval and route of administration were lower in prescriptions of fe male prescribers than in males. conclusion: polypharmacy, overuse of antibio-tics and prescription errors among the prescrip-tions of dental practitioners were common. conti nuous training of dentists would be necessary to improve the quality of prescriptions.

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journal of dentomaxillofacil radiology, pathology and surgery

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