BACKGROUND Assessment of patterns of drug to detect performance problems and compliance with standards facilitates objective comparisons and impact evaluation. Children are at higher risk of consequences of irrational prescribing and antibiotic misuse. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate the prescribing pattern and utilization of antibiotics for children using standard prescr...

background: in-depth knowledge of antibiotic principles is widely considered a necessary condition for appropriate prescribing of antibiotics. the study aimed at determining the impact of healthcare providers’ level of knowledge in bacteriology and principles of antibiotic prescribing on their abilities to prescribe antibiotics appropriately. methods: a structured questionnaire survey targeting...

THE public and the medical profession generally regard the "antibiotics", by which they mean the synthetic anti-infectives as well as those produced by microorganisms, as the most beneficial group of drugs introduced in the last 35 years. Some concern has been expressed from time to time about the ways they are used, especially in hospital and as an additive to animal feed stuffs. But on the wh...

Background: Irrational prescribing of drugs is a major health problem in medical practice resulting in; ineffective treatment, development of antibiotic-resistant organisms, adverse effects and economic burden on patients and society. Objectives: The main objective of this study was rationalization of prescribing drugs and the specific objectives were to; assess the family physicians' prescribi...