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SUBMITTER: Teni FS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5748306 | biostudies-other | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Teni Fitsum Sebsibe FS Belachew Sewunet Admasu SA Gebresillassie Begashaw Melaku BM Birru Eshetie Melese EM Wubishet Befikadu Legesse BL Tekleyes Bethelhem Hailu BH Yimer Bilal Tessema BT Tefera Yonas Getaye YG
BioMed research international 20171218
The study assessed the pattern and appropriateness of medicines prescribed to outpatients at Gondar University Referral Hospital in northwestern Ethiopia. An institution-based cross-sectional study was employed, through interviews and prescription reviews, among 346 patients at the outpatient pharmacy, from 2nd to 20th of May 2016. Data on sociodemographic profile of patients and medicines prescribed to them were collected. A mean of 1.72 medicines per encounter was prescribed, over a third of t ...[more]