Tap chi Y Hoc Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh

Nguyen Anh Nhut, Le Tran Thanh Vy, Nguyen Thang, Nguyen Huong Thao

* Ho Chi Minh City Journal of Medicine * Supplement of Vol. 23 – No. 6 – 2019: 350
– 354

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of drug-related
problems (DRPs) in prescribing for outpatients in Vietnam.

Methods:
A cross-sectional study was
conducted on prescription of patients in outpatient department general practice
(GP), ear – nose – throat (ENT) and trauma – orthopedics at a hospital in Can
Tho from March 1, 2019 to March 31, 2019. Patients characteristics and
outpatient prescription information received from the Hospitals electronic
prescription software. DRP is determined by a pharmacist according to (1)
medication information leaflets; (2) guidelines of Vietnam Ministry of Health;
(3) Vietnamese National Drug Formulary. Then, the DRPs were classified using
guideline of Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (version 8.02) and were
described by frequency and percentage.

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Results:

6892 prescriptions were analysised (patients mean age
was 50.32 ± 16.194 years). Total DRPs determined were 17,074, with an average
of 2.5 DRPs per patient. In particular, the number of prescription with at
least 1 DRP was nearly 90%. The most common DRP is inappropriate indication
(55.11%), then time of taking medications (49.90%), taking medications at the
meal time (49.85%), frequency of use (47.74%) and finally, dose selection
(45.14%).

Conclusion: Prescriptions with at least 1 DRP were high.
Promoting clinical pharmacy activities in hospitals, especially outpatients prescription review and interventions is one of the strategies
to limit DRPs.

Keywords: drug-related problems, outpatient prescriptions