Evaluation of drug utilization and prescribing errors in infants: A primary care prescription-based study

Khaja, Khalid A. J. Al; Ansari, Thuraya M. Al; Damanhori, Awatif H. H.; Sequeira, Reginald P.

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2006.07.001

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“…Previous studies have indicated that errors of omission are higher [26,30,31]. It would be expected that this study would have similar results as Khalid et al as both were observational studies conducted in primary care settings without any intervention by pharmacists.…”

Section: Types Of Irrational Prescriptionssupporting

confidence: 69%

“…Errors of integration were higher than those found in studies that were conducted on essential medicines [25,26] and yet were…”

Section: Types Of Irrational Prescriptionscontrasting

confidence: 57%

“…integration were 'knowledge-based errors' due to a prescriber's inability to incorporate complementary information about the patient and/or the drug to formulate an appropriate prescription. Errors of omission were categorized as 'absent, vagueness, incompleteness or illegibility of any component of the body of a prescription' [26]. Prescriptions were coded into rational and irrational prescriptions according to the treatment guidelines.…”

Section: Patient Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Irrational Anti-Retroviral Therapy Prescription among Children Under 15 Years in Eastern Uganda

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Niyonzima³

et al. 2017

Journal of AIDS and HIV Infections

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Section: Types Of Irrational Prescriptionssupporting

confidence: 69%

“…Errors of integration were higher than those found in studies that were conducted on essential medicines [25,26] and yet were…”

Section: Types Of Irrational Prescriptionscontrasting

confidence: 57%

Section: Patient Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Irrational Anti-Retroviral Therapy Prescription among Children Under 15 Years in Eastern Uganda

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Lukabwe²,

Niyonzima³

et al. 2017

Journal of AIDS and HIV Infections

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“…Eleven studies evaluated drug prescriptions in the entire paediatric population, with an upper age limit ranging from 13 to 19 years [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31], while 10 studies were focused only on a specific age group: 3 involved only infants [11][12][13], 5 only preschoolers [14][15][16][17][18] and 2 only adolescents [19,20].…”

Section: Characteristics Of the Drug Utilisation Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another study analysed 2,282 prescriptions dispensed to infants by 20 health-care centres in Bahrain. Paracetamol was the most prescribed drug and accounted for 58% of prescriptions, followed by saline nasal drops (32% of prescriptions) [11].…”

Section: Infantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drug prescriptions to outpatient children: a review of the literature

Clavenna

Bonati

2009

Eur J Clin Pharmacol

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Purpose To evaluate the drug prescription pattern in outpatient children. Methods A systematic literature search was performed in MEDLINE and EMBASE to identify studies published between 1994 and 2008 evaluating drug prescriptions to outpatient children. Results A total of 128 drug utilisation studies were identified, 107 of which were focused on a specific drug class, in particular psychotropic drugs (49 studies) and antibiotics (32 studies). The 21 studies that evaluated all drug prescriptions involved 21 countries, mainly from Europe (13 studies). Large differences were found between studies concerning data source, sample size and age range. A prevalence ranging from 51% in Denmark to 70% in Greenland and a prescription rate (number of drugs per children) ranging from 0.8 in Norway to 3.2 in the United States were reported in the 11 studies that monitored the overall paediatric population. The prevalence rate was higher in preschoolers, with a peak between 72 and 90%, and decreased in children >6 years. Antibiotics were the most prescribed drugs (20-33% of the prescriptions) followed by antiasthmatics (10-25%). According to the results of four studies comparable in terms of data source and children's age, the overall prevalence estimate was 60%. Conclusion A large heterogeneity was found between studies, making a comparative evaluation often difficult or incomplete. The epidemiological evaluation of drug use in children should therefore be improved, in particular in terms of methodological quality of studies, and prospective multinational collaborative studies aimed at collecting valid and comparable data should be performed to improve the rational use of drugs.

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