The objective of this study was to assess appropriate thromboprophylaxis prescription rates in a university hospital and to re-audit after a series of interventions. The notes of all acute medical patient admissions over a 4-week period were assessed for VTE risk factors and prescription of thromboprophylaxis. Subsequently, a series of hospital wide interventions including educational initiativ...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of transitions due to substitution of care of more complex patients urges insight in and improvement of transitional medication safety. While lack of documentation of prescription changes and/or lack of information exchange between settings likely cause adverse drug events, frequency of occurrence of these causes is not clear. Therefore, we aimed at determinin...

Background: It has been suggested that patients undergoing acute intervention for coronary syndromes may not receive adequate secondary prevention. Objective: To analyse the impact of availability and use of coronary interventions on the prescription of secondary prevention after acute coronary syndromes. Design: Analysis of a prospective multicentre register of patients admitted to hospital fo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the point prevalence of benzodiazepine prescriptions for inpatients at a tertiary care university hospital in Pakistan and to correlate it with prescription patterns of various specialties, indications and demographic variables of the patients. METHODS This 24-hours point prevalence study was done at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. By convenient random sampli...

INTRODUCTION The prescription and costs of antiulcer medications for in-hospital use have increased during recent years with reported inadequate use and underused. AIM To determine the patterns of prescription-indication and also perform an economic analysis of the overcost caused by the non-justified use of antiulcer medications in a third level hospital in Colombia. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that patients undergoing acute intervention for coronary syndromes may not receive adequate secondary prevention. OBJECTIVE To analyse the impact of availability and use of coronary interventions on the prescription of secondary prevention after acute coronary syndromes. DESIGN Analysis of a prospective multicentre register of patients admitted to hospital f...

A prospective quasi-experimental study was undertaken in 218 patients with suspicion of nosocomial infection hospitalized in a polyvalent ICU where a new electronic device (GERB) has been designed for antibiotic prescriptions. Two GERB-based applications were developed to provide local resistance maps (LRMs) and preliminary microbiological reports with therapeutic recommendation (PMRTRs). Both ...

introduction: in a comprehensive health approach, emphasis has been more on education and self-care than care itself, and aims to increase patient’s knowledge to give decision making and independence ability to improve quality of lifestyle. these can develop with progress of information technology. the aim of this study was to evaluate hospital information system (his) in meeting the patient dr...

BACKGROUND Variability in processes of care and outcomes has been reported widely in high-income settings (at geographic, hospital, physician group and individual physician levels); however, such variability and the factors driving it are rarely examined in low-income settings. METHODS Using data from a cross-sectional survey undertaken in 22 hospitals (60 case records from each hospital) acr...