Prescribing habits in church-owned primary health care facilities in Dar-es-salaam and other Tanzanian coast regions

Practices regarding prescription and dispensing of drugs in a tertiary care hospital in rural West Bengal, India

“…where the scale of the problem is much greater. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] To improve the prescribing practices of a region, a baseline of current trends in practices among the physician-patient population must be understood and set. This is especially true for a country like India, where 67% of the population live in rural areas and there is often a palpable difference in the healthcare services provided between the facilities serving the rural and the urban populations of the country.…”

Drug utilization patterns of antidepressants in Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Lagos, Nigeria

“…[10,[16][17][18] The non-optimal use of NEML could be attributed to various factors such as unavailability or ineffective distribution of the list, nonsensitization among health workers and a general lack of enforcement mechanisms. [52][53][54] Other studies have revealed that the main source of information for prescribers were the medical representatives [53,55] who may over-represent the efficacy of medicines, discredit the efficacy of competitor brands and likely to induce prescribers to prescribe outside established guidelines. [56,57] A mathematical model invented by Zhang and Zhi was adapted to assess rational drug use comprehensively and…”

Adesão a listas de medicamentos essenciais em municípios de três estados brasileiros

“…Em estudos anteriores, os percentuais variaram de 58,4% a 92,7% 11,12,13,14,15,16,17 . O percentual verificado também é inferior aos observados em países da África, que variaram entre 88% e 92,3% 18,19,20,21 e Ásia, com 85% a 99,7% 18,22,23,24 . Na avaliação desses dados, não podemos descartar a possibilidade de que a amostra selecionada tenha superestimado o percentual de medicamentos essenciais prescritos.…”