Emergency department visits and admissions due to drug related problems at Riyadh military hospital (RMH), Saudi Arabia

Al-Arifi, Mohamed N.; Abu-Hashem, Hanan; Almeziny, Mohamed; Said, Ragab; Aljadhey, Hisham

doi:10.1016/j.jsps.2013.01.001

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“…The results of drug-related problems lead to emergency visit almost resemble what reported by Al-Arifi, M et al and higher than what reported by Al-Olah, YH et al [7,19] While the hospital admission is resembled what reported by Nivya, K et al but higher than what reported by Al-Arifi, M et al that is due to increasing of percentage over the past several years, and patient perspective higher that what documented in the patient profile. [7,20] The drug-related problems lead to critical admission percentages higher than what reported by Hammerman, H. et al because out study more general not focused at one area of medicines, poor implementation of patient education programs at healthcare organizations, and reduced background on medications knowledge. [11] The most medications induced drug-related problems with all patient and healthcare professionals were antibiotics with a high rate of non-compliance and not completed the course of the therapy and prescribing or administration by healthcare professionals.…”

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Clinical Outcomes of Drug-related Problems in Saudi Arabia: Patients’ and Healthcare Providers’ Perspective

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Al-Shaibani²,

Alfaisal³

et al. 2018

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“…That has included a visit the doctor at ambulatory care clinic or emergency visit, hospital admission, or critical care admission or death. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Most of the studies done retrospective or perspective with follow up. There's not involved the patient respective and view.…”

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Clinical Outcomes of Drug-related Problems in Saudi Arabia: Patients’ and Healthcare Providers’ Perspective

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Al-Shaibani²,

Alfaisal³

et al. 2018

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“…Several factors, including higher incidence of emerging and remerging diseases, increased number of pharmacological manufacturers and development of pharmaceutical research, conspire to increase number of medicines approved by regulatory agencies and, ultimately, to increase global per capita drug consumption . Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are increased significantly with increasing drug use and diversity …”

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Development of biliary and renal stone and sludge after taking Ceftriaxone is associated with a defect in UDP‐Glucuronosyltransferase (ie Gilbert’s syndrome)

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Background In addition to patient concerns, drug side effects increase health care costs. Although the Ceftriaxone biliary or renal stone and sludge some time is asymptomatic and self‐healing, but some of them are dangerous and may lead to hospitalisation or surgical intervention. Aims Examine the relation between biliary or renal stone and sludge due to ceftriaxone in patients with different variants of UGT1A1 gene. Methods In this cohort study, 176 unrelated infants and children under 12 years of age who receive ceftriaxone were enrolled the study. Each patient before, along treatment and 2 weeks after discharging, follows up with gallbladder and kidneys ultrasonography. Standard blood samples were taken for biochemical and genetic tests. The promoter and exon 1 regions of UGT1A1 gene were sequenced by using Sanger method. All the collected data were analysed by Chi‐squared, one‐way ANOVA, Kruskal‐Wallis, and Mann‐Whitney tests through SPSS Software (version 21). Results Eighty participants (45.5%) were female and the remaining (n = 96; 54.5%) were male. The results showed that 16.5% of participants had abnormal gallbladder conditions. The results suggested that in patients with TA7/7, and Gly71Arg (G/A) genotype (ie Gilbert's syndrome) the prevalence of biliary sludge and stone was significantly higher than the control group (P = 0.008 and 0.05 respectively).

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“…Also, several drug-related problems may implicate to visit ambulatory care clinic or community pharmacy or hospital admission or critical care admission or need a survey or even death complications. [2][3][4][5] No previous conditions calculated as cost implications. The patient's knowledge of medications and cost related all previous situations maybe not familiar with that is one.…”

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Patient’s Knowledge of Drug-Related Cost Information in Saudi Arabi

Alomi¹,

Alaskari²,

Almelfi³

et al. 2018

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Objective: To explore the Patient's Knowledge of medicines related cost information in Saudi Arabia. Methods: It is a 4-months cross-sectional survey of patient and basic knowledge of medicines. The survey consisted of two-part, demographic information and second part forty-nine questions divided into four domains. It included domain 1: Primary or essential information about patient medication, domain 2: patient information about the drug-related problem, domain 3: patient information about drug-related cost and domain 4: patient perception of medications. Medline Plus health information and DailyMed-INH elements information from National Institute of Health United State of America were used. The 5-point Likert response scale system was used. The questions were open and closed-ended. The survey distributed through social media and at 500-bed pediatrics and maternity hospital in Asir region, at ambulatory care pharmacy. The hospitals were accredited by Saudi Center for Healthcare organization (CBAHI) and Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation from the United States of America (USA). The authors did the patients interview with electronic survey documentation. The survey was made in an electronic format and it analyzed domain three patient information about drug-related cost through survey monkey system. Results: The total responders were (614) patients with Saudi 564 (96.1%) and Non-Saudi 23 (3.9%) nationalities. The gender distribution 523 (85.2%) were females and 91 (14.8%) were males. The most type of medications used was anti-diabetic and anti-hypertension medicines, Skin medications and drugs for Respiratory Diseases. The responders showed good knowledge about drug storage at room temperature 380 (64.7%) or refrigerator 378 (64.7%), protect medication from light exposures 335 (57.56%) and how to behave with an expired medication 328 (59.85%). The patient had not adequate information about prescription prices 294 (49.83%) and imperfect knowledge about Health insurance coverage of medications 198 (32.53%). The patients showed that missing of medication knowledge led them to visit doctor clinic 114 (20%), visit the pharmacy 180 (32.4%), visit hospital emergency 40 (7.4%), hospital admission 77 (13.9%) or intensive care admission 23 (4.3%). Conclusion: The patients missed medication cost knowledge in Ministry of Health organization.Drug-related prices and medication cost awareness are demanding for Saudi patient to prevent drug-related hospital admission, patient's shares in the drug therapy plan to choose the appropriate medications to improve patient adherence and improve clinical outcomes and patients' quality of life.

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Emergency department visits and admissions due to drug related problems at Riyadh military hospital (RMH), Saudi Arabia

Cited by 43 publications

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Clinical Outcomes of Drug-related Problems in Saudi Arabia: Patients’ and Healthcare Providers’ Perspective

Clinical Outcomes of Drug-related Problems in Saudi Arabia: Patients’ and Healthcare Providers’ Perspective

Development of biliary and renal stone and sludge after taking Ceftriaxone is associated with a defect in UDP‐Glucuronosyltransferase (ie Gilbert’s syndrome)

Patient’s Knowledge of Drug-Related Cost Information in Saudi Arabi

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