ArticleJournal of basic and clinical pharmacy2015
An evaluation of the prescribing patterns for under-five patients at a Tertiary Paediatric Hospital in Sierra Leone.
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- Antibiotics prescription pattern and determinants of utilization in the national health insurance scheme at a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria.African health sciences · 2019Article
- Primary health care physicians' prescribing patterns for children under five in Qassim, Saudi Arabia.Primary health care research & development · 2019Article
- Exploring the Knowledge and Perception of Generic Medicines among Final Year Undergraduate Medical, Pharmacy, and Nursing Students in Sierra Leone: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Approach.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Paediatric Prescription Analysis in a Primary Health Care Institution.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2016Article
- Evaluation of antibiotic prescribing pattern in pediatrics in a tertiary care hospital.Avicenna journal of medicineArticle
- Prescribing pattern and antibiotic use for hospitalized children in a Northern Nigerian Teaching Hospital.Annals of African medicineArticle
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Abstract
purposeThere is limited information on pediatric prescribing in Sierra Leone. This study evaluated prescribing patterns for under-five patients at Ola During Children's Hospital (ODCH) and assessed the extent of rational prescribing.
methodsA descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective study of 294 prescriptions, selected by systematic random sampling was conducted at the outpatient department of ODCH. The World Health Organisation prescribing indicators were analyzed using the SPSS package 16.0. The index of rational drug prescribing (IRDP) was calculated to assess rational prescribing.
resultsThe average number of medicines per prescription was 3.77. The percentage of medicines prescribed by generic names was 71.0%, while 74.8% and 21.1% of prescriptions had an antibiotic and injection, respectively. The percentage of medicines prescribed from the national essential medicines list was 70.6%. The most commonly prescribed pharmacological groups of medicines were vitamins (85.37%) and antibiotics (82.99%). The IRDP was 2.71, instead of the ideal value of 5.
conclusionPediatric prescribing patterns at the outpatient department of ODCH cannot be said to be entirely rational, especially with regards to antibiotic and injection prescribing.
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