Medical Prescription Pitfalls of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Government Healthcare Facilities in Zambia
| dc.contributor.author | Besa, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Siziya, S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-16T10:25:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-16T10:25:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | Identifying pitfalls in medical prescriptions of uncomplicated urinary tract infections in government healthcare facilities in Zambia. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The aim of this evaluation was to identify pitfalls in medical prescriptions of uncomplicated urinary tract infections in government healthcare facilities in Zambia. Design: This was a cross sectional and government healthcare facilities were conveniently sampled. Main outcome measures: Rate of compliance to Zambia national prescribing guidelines. Results: A total of 42 (75.0%) out of 56 students participated in the survey of whom 66.7% were males. Findings in this study has demonstrated significant drug misuse and over-prescription as participants were healthy individuals. Only 75.6% of prescriptions indicated patient's name and very small proportions of prescriptions (11.5%) indicated patients' address. In addition, relatively small proportion of prescriptions (68.8%) had generic names and many prescriptions (58.1%) had large blank spaces left. Furthermore, relatively large proportion of prescriptions were not signed (10.7%) and not dated (12.0%). Almost half of the prescriptions (47.6%) did not show prescribers' names and only small proportions of prescriptions had precribers' identification number (24.0%) and address or department (21.5%) indicated. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Office of Global AIDS/US Department of State. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Besa, C. and Siziya, S. (2017). Medical Prescription Pitfalls of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Government Healthcare Facilities in Zambia. Medical Journal of Zambia. 44 (1) | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/5843 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Medical Journal of Zambia. 44 (1) | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Medical Journal of Zambia. 44 (1); | |
| dc.subject | Prescription Drug Misuse--Zambia | en |
| dc.subject | Prescription Medicine Misuse,Urinary Tract Infections--Zambia | en |
| dc.subject | Clinical Pharmacology,Urinary Tract Infections--Zambia | en |
| dc.title | Medical Prescription Pitfalls of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Government Healthcare Facilities in Zambia | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |