Assessing Drug Use Indicators in Health Insurance Facilities, Gezira State, Sudan, 2017-2018
Assessing Drug Use Indicators in Health Insurance Facilities, Gezira State, Sudan, 2017-2018作者机构：Medical Service Directorate National Health Insurance Fund Gezira Sudan Department of Pharmaceutics College of Pharmacy Omdurman Islamic University Omdurman Sudan MPH MHPE National Health Insurance Fund Gezira Sudan
出 版 物：《Pharmacology & Pharmacy》 (药理与制药（英文）)
年 卷 期：2021年第12卷第10期
页 面：237-246页
学科分类：07[理学] 0701[理学-数学] 070101[理学-基础数学]
主 题：Assessing Drug Use Indicators National Health Insurance Fund Gezira Sudan
摘 要：Background: Inappropriate use of medicines is a global concern with serious consequences related to prescribing, dispensing, and use. WHO estimated that 50% of medicines are not used correctly on their journey from the facility to home. Objective: To assess medicines use using WHO drug core indicators regarding prescribing, patient, and facilities. Setting: Outpatients, Health centers in Wadmadani locality (Urban area) in Gezira State, Sudan. Method: A cross-sectional, prospective, analytical study was conducted in 30 health centers and 60 patients from each center were selected using a simple random sampling technique. WHO indicators form was used to collect data containing different variables. T-test at a level of confidence of 95% was used to test differences between indicators. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used for data analysis. Results: The main prescribing indicators were 2.5 ± 0.6 for drugs per encounter, 44.1% ± 14.2%. Generic 54 ± 18.0 antibiotics, 12.0% ± 9.3% injectable, and 95.2% ± 11.5% of drugs were prescribed according to the NHIF-EML. The main patient’s indicators were, 2.9 ± 0.8 minutes for consultation time, 99.5 ± 36.8 seconds for dispensing time, and 72.5% ± 16.0% for medicines actually dispensed, 49.0% ± 18.0% for medicines adequately labeled, and 22.5% ± 7.3% of the patient
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