Prescribing of Outpatient: Observational Study Using WHO Prescribing Indicator in One of Health Care Facilities in Bandung
Journal Title: Indonesian Journal of Clinical Pharmacy - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
This study was held to evaluate drug pattern in one of the health facilities in Bandung using five World Health Organization guideline for prescribing indicators, which include average number of drugs per encounter, percentage of drugs prescribed by generic name, percentage of encounters with an antibiotic, injection prescribed, and drugs prescribed from essential drugs list or formulary. Outpatient prescriptions were collected retrospectively from April 2015–March 2016. Average number of drugs per encounter 2.13 was gained by dividing 3,886 drugs with 1,814 prescriptions. Percentage of using generic drugs were 57.47%, antibiotics were 15.52 % and 0.41% for injections per encounters, whereas percentage of drugs prescribed from essential drugs list was 39.49%. The result showed that usage of generic and essential drugs were still far from WHO standard (100%) while the usage of antibiotics and injections were lower than World Health Organization recommendation.
Authors and Affiliations
Dika P. Destiani, Syahrul Naja, Aminah Nurhadiyah, Eli Halimah, Ellin Febrina
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- EP ID EP368199
- DOI 10.15416/ijcp.2016.5.3.225
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