The number of dispensing doctors has increased in the last decade, but the implication of
this trend on the quality of health care and drug use is unknown. We present a comparative …

Objectives To assess medicine dispensing practices in private pharmacies in Dar-es-
Salaam, Tanzania and recommend interventions to improve practice. Methods A cross …

Objective: To assess prescribing practice of Primary Health Care (PHC) workers in church
owned health care facilities using WHO drug use indicators. Design: A cross-sectional study …

While many health districts recognise that irrational prescribing leads to wastage of drugs,
few monitor prescribing practices. We investigated drug use in government health facilities …

Drug prescribing patterns were studied in 720 retrospective and 779 prospective outpatient
prescriptions from 20 dispensaries in Dar es Salaam region, and these revealed a mean …

A free health service is available to a large proportion of the rural population in Zimbabwe.
However in this study area it was found that general dealer's stores (stores) sold the …

Purpose: Inappropriate prescribing has been identified in many health facilities in
developing countries. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prescribing practices in …

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate current prescribing and dispensing
practices at primary healthcare centers in Kuwait and compare them with those reported in …

This article presents the results of an assessment of prescribing practice, undertaken in the
Morogoro region of Tanzania. As part of a wider evaluation of performance in primary level …

Antibiotic dispensing without a prescription poses a threat to public health as it leads to
excessive antibiotic consumption. Inappropriate antibiotic availability to the community has …