Hospitals should follow the National Formulary when prescribing medications. In accordance with Formulary, percentage of drug prescriptions in a hospital must be at least 80%, according to health service quality indicator standard number 30 2022 about prescriptions. One West Nusa Tenggara Province's class C hospitals, Sumbawa Regional General Hospital treats patients Health Insurance (NHI), who...

BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about the incidence of prescribing errors and there has been no work on this in a single specialty ophthalmic hospital. Knowing where and when errors are most likely to occur is generally felt to be the first step in trying to prevent these errors. This study is an attempt in, the setting of an eye hospital, to try to identify and attribute these medication...

We describe prosthetic limb prescription in the first year following lower-limb amputation and examine the relationship between amputation level, geographic region, and prosthetic prescription. We analyzed 2005 to 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Inpatient and Medical Encounters SAS data sets, Vital Status death data, and National Prosthetic Patient Database data for 9,994 Veterans who ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Antithrombotic therapy has been demonstrated as an effective tool for secondary ischemic stroke prevention. Nevertheless, scant data are available on actual prescription of this therapy in clinical practice. METHODS A total of 17 337 patients admitted to geriatric and internal medicine wards participating in the study in the 1993 to 1998 survey period were analyzed. Pat...

AIM This study aims to evaluate the prescription patterns and side effects of oxycodone in a local hospital setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of all patients who were prescribed oxycodone for acute or chronic pain from June to November 2007. Patients' names were obtained from the hospital pharmacy and data were collected with a set of questionnaire after review o...