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Assessment of prescribing practices through WHO prescribing indicators at nekemte health center, west ethiopia |
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| Creator | 1. B. Mosisa 2. R. Sherefudin 3. G. Bayisa |
| Title | Assessment of prescribing practices through WHO prescribing indicators at nekemte health center, west ethiopia |
| Publisher | Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University |
| Publication Year | 2559 |
| Journal Title | Mahidol University Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Journal Vol. | 43 |
| Journal No. | 3 |
| Page no. | 107-114 |
| Keyword | prescribing indicators,rational prescribing,prescribers,drug utilization |
| ISSN | 0125-1570 |
| Abstract | The ultimate goal of drug utilization related studies are to figure out the actual practices on the ground, and comparison of that with set standard, so that improvement can be made to achieve maximum possible health outcome for a patient through rational prescribing. One of the players of this game to achieve this goal is prescribers on which this study spins. The objective of this study was to assess actual prescribing practice of drugs in Nekemte Health Center. This study was a descriptive cross-sectional survey which investigated the prescribing practices of prescribers using the World Health Organization (WHO) core prescribing indicators at Nekemte Health Center in west Ethiopia. 770 Prescriptions were retrospectively reviewed in outpatient pharmacy of the Health Center selected through systematic random sampling over the period from January 1, 2014 to January 1, 2015. |
