EVALUATION OF ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIPTIONS BY USING THE SCIENTIFIC NAME OR BRAND IN BAGHDAD
Dr. Adnan Kareem Ibrahim*
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Unless it is a new medicine, most prescription and over the counter medicines are sold by brand name and generic name medicines. Aim: to evaluate the prescriptions which is used the scientific name of antibiotic as well as the drug with the brand name. Method: A cross sectional study was conducted at Al-Yermook teaching hospital among those who attending the outpatient clinic with different diseases for a period two months. the convenience sample was used to collect our sample. The data collection through a questionnaire was designed for this study. the information included the age, gender, # of item, antibiotic use, antibiotics by scientific name & diagnosis. The data entered to Excel sheet and the STATA software program was used to analysis this data. Result: Out of 923 cases, 258 (27.9%) in the age <10 years, 57.7% were female, 66.1% of medical prescription includes more than 3 items, 51% had antibiotic use, 11.5% use the antibiotic by injection. The higher percentage of antibiotic which is used for eye infection 29.4%, followed by gastroenteritis in 14.4%. Conclusion: - There is a statistically significant have been found between antibiotic use by scientific name, age groups and diagnosis at the p. value <0.05.
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