Article history: Received on: 04/03/2013 Revised on: 28/03/2013 Accepted on: 15/04/2013 Available online: 27/04/2013 The purpose of this study is to rationalize the use of cephalosporins in various common bacterial infections like infections of upper and lower respiratory tract, urinary tract, gastrointestinal tract and of soft tissues in pediatrics (age range: neonate – 10 yrs). A retrospectiv...

Objectives: To assess the extent to which teratogenic drugs are prescribed during pregnancy and to investigate. the feasibility of an alert system at the point of prescription, in order to improve drug safety during pregnancy. Methods: We establish a reference list of teratogenic drugs by merging lists of teratogenic drugs published in the literature, extract drug prescriptions to pregnant wome...

Drug therapy is a complex and important process and because of the importance of drug interactions, especially in in-patients, accompanying problems and obstacles would exist as a result of concomitant use of drugs in these patients. For this purpose 3130 prescription order forms from Bou-Ali hospital were collected and all potential drug interactions presentwere extracted and evaluated in term...

Background and aim: Giving improper prescriptions is common among medical practitioners, mostly graduates, in most communities even developed countries. So far, to our knowledge, no study has been conducted on prescription writing of graduate midwifery students. Therefore, this study aimed to detect prescription writing errors of midwifery students in common gynecological problems. Methods: In ...

Background: Reciprocal drug interactions are among the most common causes of adverse drug reactions. We investigated the incidence and related risk factors associated with mutual drug interactions in relation to prescriptions written in the neurology wards of two major teaching hospitals in Shiraz, southern Iran. Methods: Data was collected from hand-written prescriptions on a daily basis. Mutu...

OBJECTIVES To find out prescription patterns of general practitioners in Peshawar. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of drug prescriptions was done at six major hospitals and pharmacies of Peshawar between April and May 2011. A total of 1097 prescriptions that included 3640 drugs, were analyzed to assess completeness, average number of drugs, prescription frequency of various drug classes, and n...

drug therapy is a complex and important process and because of the importance of drug interactions, especially in in-patients, accompanying problems and obstacles would exist as a result of concomitant use of drugs in these patients. for this purpose 3130 prescription order forms from bou-ali hospital were collected and all potential drug interactions presentwere extracted and evaluated in term...

Drug therapy is a complex and important process and because of the importance of drug interactions, especially in in-patients, accompanying problems and obstacles would exist as a result of concomitant use of drugs in these patients. For this purpose 3130 prescription order forms from Bou-Ali hospital were collected and all potential drug interactions presentwere extracted and evaluated in term...

OBJECTIVES To surveyed the quantities, types, and related information of potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) and estimate the off-label use percentage of pediatric outpatient prescriptions for newborns and infants from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) of Taiwan. BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions (ADR) may cause morbidity and mortality, potential drug-drug interactio...

3 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Departamento de Enfermagem Fundamental, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze potential intravenous drug interactions, and their level of severity associated with the administration of these drugs based on the prescriptions of an intensive care unit. Method: Quantitative study, with a retrospective ex...