Most experienced prescribers believe that the principles of rational prescribing underpin their choice of therapy. However, without a robust understanding of the basis for decisions, drug choice can become formulaic and ignore individual patient variability. Rational prescribing should: • maximise effectiveness • minimise risks • respect patient choice, and • minimise costs. A logical sequence ...

BACKGROUND Most health expenditure of developing countries is on drugs and medical sundries but inappropriate use of such resources is common. To our knowledge, only few studies have been done in Africa on this issue , with inadequate consideration of the sociological context of the knowledge, attitude and practice of the prescribers especially doctors. This study presents the pooled data of th...

introduction: drug use in pediatric patients is a unique dilemma in the management and monitoring of disease. this study aimed at assessing medication prescribing in a pediatric ward of an  ethiopian hospital. materials and methods: a retrospective cross-sectional study was done by reviewing the medical records of 249 patients among those admitted in the period between 11th of september 2007 an...

background rational prescription is a considerable issue which must be paid more attention to assess the behavior of prescribers. the aim of this study was to examine factors affecting family physicians’ drug prescribing.   methods we carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study in khuzestan province, iran in 2011. nine hundred eighty-six prescriptions of 421 family physicians (including 3...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether electronic prescribing is a comprehensive health management tool that may contribute to rational drug use, particularly in polymedicated patients receiving 16 or more medications in the public healthcare system in the Barcelona Health Region (BHR). DESIGN 16 months of retrospective study followed by 12 months of prospective monitoring. SETTING Primary healthcare...

Various classes of nite-dimensional closed convex cones are studied. Equivalent characterizations of pointed cones, pyramids and rational pyramids are given. Special class of regular cones, corresponding to \continuous linear" quasiorderings of integer vectors is introduced and equivalently characterized. It comprehends both pointed cones and rational pyramids. Two diierent ways of determining ...

Industrialised countries, faced with increasing demands for quality health care by ageing populations and ever increasing costs of medicines, can learn from low income countries how to respond to pharmaceutical policy issues in a comprehensive way. Since the 1970s many developing countries have started national programmes for essential drugs to promote the availability, accessibility, affordabi...

Background: Medicines play a crucial role in the healthcare delivery of hospital. The appropriate use medicines gives us assessment quality health services being provided particular region. Aim: To evaluate prescribing practices and antibiotic utilization patterns so that extent irrational can be assessed by comparing them with published ideal values set WHO. Study design: Retrospective, cross-...