Investigation of prescribing behavior at outpatient settings of governmental hospitals in eastern Ethiopia: an overall evaluation beyond World Health Organization core prescribing indicators
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Evaluation of trends of drug-prescribing patterns based on WHO prescribing indicators at outpatient departments of four hospitals in southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND Rational prescribing is a primary step to ensure rational drug use. Often, half of the medicines are prescribed irrationally and half of these are even used incorrectly as the patients fail to take their medicines appropriately. The aim of this research was to evaluate drug-prescribing patterns of four hospitals in southern Ethiopia. METHODS A retrospective cross-sectional study wa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2052-3211
DOI: 10.1186/s40545-018-0152-z