Parenteral Opioid Analgesics Utilization Pattern in Amir-al-Momenin Hospital, Zabol-IRAN
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS) - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 8
Abstract
Opioids are the most available medicines to get rid of any general severe pain and avoiding of any deleterious sequential that can worsen patient outcomes. Rational prescription of opioid analgesics with respect to the possibility of abuse is a big concern in the medical care costs. Zabol, where is located in eastern part of Iran and has common border with Afghanistanhas the most opioid traffic in the region. In this study the rational prescription of parenteral opioid in Amir-al-Momenin general hospital was investigated. A retrospective drug utilization review was performed on 509 in-patients who received parenteral opioids including Morphine, Pethidin, Pentazocin, Fentanyl, Alfentanil, Sufentanil and Methadone from March 21sttoSeptember 23rd, 2011. Multivariate conditional regression modeling was used to determine independent predictors for daily parenteral opioid consumption. Total daily parenteral opioid consumption was 38.63 DDDs/100bed-days for Morphine, Pethidine and Pentazocin and 84564.78 PFEQs/100bed-days for Fentanyl, Alfentanil and Sufentanil and 766 mg for Methadone. Pethidine was the most frequently prescribed parenteral opioid. Most patients who were prescribed by the intramuscular routes, ordered PRN. Daily parenteral opioid consumption was the highest in the emergency ward whereas it was considered as the lowest in the intensive care unit[ICU]. According to our findings, total daily parenteral opioid consumption was almost high in Amir-al-Momenin Hospital. Unlike to some relevant factors that can effect on the consumption of analgesic opioids like gender, age, drug-drug interaction and etc, we found no rational prescription and consumption in the mentioned hospital.
Authors and Affiliations
Hossein Vatanpour| Departmentof Pharmacoeconomy and Pharma Management, Pharmacy School, Medical Science University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran Corresponding Email:Vatanpour.hossein@gmail.com, Hamed Sufi| Departmentof Pharmacoeconomy and Pharma Management, Pharmacy School, Medical Science University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran, Nahidd-Emam-Jomeh| Departmentof Pharmacoeconomy and Pharma Management, Pharmacy School, Medical Science University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran, Atoosa Khorramnia| Departmentof Pharmacoeconomy and Pharma Management, Pharmacy School, Medical Science University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran, Tannaz Bovand| Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, Saba Vatanpour| Faculty of Sciences, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
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