Medicine storage, wastage, and associated determinants among urban households: a systematic review and meta-analysis of household surveys

A Jafarzadeh, A Mahboub-Ahari, M Najafi, M Yousefi… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Irrational household storage of medicines is a world-wide problem, which
triggers medicine wastage as well as its associated harms. This study aimed to include all …

Analisis implementasi kebijakan penggunaan antibiotika rasional untuk mencegah resistensi antibiotika di RSUP Sanglah Denpasar: Studi kasus infeksi methicillin …

KS Negara - Jurnal ARSI (Administrasi Rumah Sakit Indonesia), 2014 - scholarhub.ui.ac.id
Pemakaian antibiotika tidak rasional menyebabkan resistensi antibiotika. Implementasi
kebijakan penggunaan antibiotika di RSUP Sanglah Denpasar belum pernah di evaluasi …

Irrational drug use and its associated factors at Debre Markos Referral Hospital's outpatient pharmacy in East Gojjam, Northwest Ethiopia

L Melku, M Wubetu, B Dessie - SAGE open medicine, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: Half of all drugs are used irrationally around the world, and about half of patients
take their medications correctly. Inappropriate use of drugs leads to antibiotic resistance …

Measuring medicine use: Applying ATC/DDD methodology to real-world data

S Hollingworth, T Kairuz - Pharmacy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Medicines are essential for the treatment of acute, communicable, and non-communicable
diseases. The World Health Organization developed a toolkit for drug (medicine) utilization …

Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice of disposing and storing unused and expired medicines among the communities of Kathmandu, Nepal

N Jha, S Kafle, S Bhandary, PR Shankar - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Unused medicines can be stored by many people at their places of residence
and houses for later use. This study evaluated knowledge, and attitudes regarding unused …

Pediatric outpatient prescriptions in countries with advanced economies in the 21st century: a systematic review

M Taine, L Offredo, A Weill, R Dray-Spira… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance An international comparison of pediatric outpatient prescriptions (POPs) is
pivotal to investigate inadequate practices at the national scale and guide corrective actions …

Knowledge support for environmental information on pharmaceuticals: experiences among Swedish Drug and Therapeutics Committees

E Linder, B Wettermark, ML Ovesjö… - BMC Health Services …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Two publicly available Swedish knowledge support systems,“
Pharmaceuticals and Environment” on Janusinfo. se and Fass. se, provide environmental …

The impact of lidocaine plaster prescribing reduction strategies: a comparison of two national health services in Europe

M Mattsson, F Boland, C Kirke, M Flood… - British journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aims In 2017, two distinct interventions were implemented in Ireland and England to reduce
prescribing of lidocaine medicated plasters. In Ireland, restrictions on reimbursement were …

Assessment of polypharmacy, drug use patterns, and associated factors at the Edna Adan University Hospital, Hargeisa, Somaliland

T Sidamo, A Deboch, M Abdi, F Debebe… - Journal of tropical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polypharmacy is the use of multiple drugs by a patient at the same time and is common in
the elderly. To our knowledge, drug use patterns in Somaliland are rarely studied. The …

Evaluation of prescription medication sharing among adults in South Korea: a cross-sectional survey

S Song, S Kim, S Shin, Y Lee, E Lee - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Prescription medication sharing is an inappropriate medication use behavior
that can lead to medication errors and adverse drug events, posing a public health threat …