Drug therapy is the most commonly used method of any disease treatment in general practice. However, the patterns of drug prescription are often inappropriate and the need for registration and evaluation of these patterns is essential in an effort to improve prescription standards. Cross sectional retrospective study was used. Prescriptions were selected by using simple random sampling techniqu...

h f t a a a c p p p p b p a t r c w e e m p t t t r n d p URRENT NEED FOR TOOLS TO IMPROVE ATIONAL PRESCRIBING The need for rational prescribing, that is, the selecion of the most appropriate therapeutic regimen for a pecific patient, is greater than ever. For example, a ecent study identified physicians’ poor prescribing perormance as the source for over 70% of clinically ignificant medication...

BACKGROUND Current health policies assume that prescribing is more efficient and rational when general practitioners (GPs) work with a formulary or restricted drugs lists and thus with a limited range of drugs. Therefore we studied determinants of the range of drugs prescribed by general practitioners, distinguishing general GP-characteristics, characteristics of the practice setting, character...

OBJECTIVE To investigate antibiotics prescribing patterns in the outpatient pediatric emergency clinic at Queen Rania Al Abdullah II Children's Hospital at Royal Medical Services in Amman, Jordan. METHODS The data was collected from the emergency pharmacy over the period of a -five consecutive months. The methodology recommended by the World Health Organization for investigating drug use in a...

BACKGROUND Suggestions of overprescribing of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for long-term treatment in primary care have been raised. This study aims to analyse associations between general practice characteristics and initiating long-term treatment with PPIs. METHODS A nationwide register-based cohort study of patients over 18 years redeeming first-time prescription for PPI issued by a genera...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to explore the impact of the implementation of an electronic prescribing and medication administration system (ePA) on the safety of medication administration in an inpatient hospital setting. Objectives were to compare the prevalence and types of: 1) medication administration errors, and 2) documentation discrepancies, between a paper and an ePA system. Addi...

BACKGROUND The prescribing behaviour of doctors is influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. This study investigated the extent to which contacts with pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSR) and the perception of these contacts influence prescribing habits. METHOD An online questionnaire regarding contact with PSRs and perceptions of this contact was sent to 1,388 doctors, 11.5% (n = 160)...

Prescribing practices are a reflection of health professional’s abilities to discriminate among the various choices of drugs and determine the ones that will most benefit their patients The main objectives of the study include understanding the prescribing behaviour of physicians, evaluate average cost per prescription, educate the patients regarding their medication and health status and to pr...