Background Drug use evaluation is a structured, methodological, and criteria-based drug
assessment system that helps to evaluate the actual trend of drug use in a particular setting …

Background Despite medicines are a major contributor to the health and well-being of the
community, irrational use of medicines is being a serious public health crisis with significant …

Abstract Objective: The World Health Organization (WHO) provides standard drug use
indicators used globally for drug utilization studies. This systematic review examines and …

Background Healthcare systems in both developing and developed countries were not free
from prescription errors. One of the effects of prescription errors is irrational prescribing …

Introduction. Irrational medicine use is a global problem, and one of its manifestation is
inappropriate prescribing that occurs when medicines are not prescribed in accordance with …

Background: Both constrained access to essential medicines and combatting marketing of
substandard and falsified (SF) medicines are unmet health sector goals in Africa. Objective …

Poor prescribing pattern is observed and become a serious problem in the world including
developing countries. In Ethiopia, several studies showed that health care institutions did not …

Background Currently, the private healthcare sector's role in healthcare delivery is growing
in Ethiopia. However, there are limited studies on private healthcare sector drug use …

OBJECTIVE: The rational use of medicines as per the World Health Organization (WHO)
should be practiced globally. However, data regarding the completeness of the prescriptions …

Background Irrational use of drugs has been one of the major problems around the globe.
However, the degree of the problem is higher in developing countries like Ethiopia. The …