Prescription pattern of clinicians in private health facilities in Kano, Northwestern Nigeria
| Autor: | Igbiks Tamuno |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Drug medicine.medical_specialty lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine lcsh:RC955-962 media_common.quotation_subject Drug prescription lcsh:Medicine Health problems Intervention (counseling) Health care medicine Indicators Medical prescription Prescribed drugs media_common Polypharmacy business.industry Northwestern Nigeria lcsh:R Prescription pattern Antibiotic prescription Infectious Diseases Family medicine Emergency medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease, Vol 1, Iss 3, Pp 235-238 (2011) |
| ISSN: | 2222-1808 |
| Popis: | Objective To evaluate the prescription pattern of clinicians in private health care facilities in Kano, Northwestern Nigeria. Methods One thousand prescriptions from ten private health facilities in Kano were evaluated retrospectively using WHO prescribing indicators. Results Average number of drugs per encounter in these health facilities was 3.20. Generic prescribing was low at 55.40% while encounters with antibiotic prescription were high at 43.80%. About 91.20% of prescribed drugs were listed in the national essential drug list while 83.30% of the drugs for treatment of common health problems were available in these facilities. Nearly 18% of encounters had at least one injection prescribed while antihypertensives, analgesics, antimalarials, vitamins and anxiolytics were prescribed in 11.80%, 61.30%, 30.20%, 21.50% and 12.30% of encounters, respectively. Conclusions Polypharmacy, overuse of antibiotics and injections, and low rate of generic prescribing occur in private health facilities in Kano. Therefore, there is a need to draw attention to the educational intervention. |
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