Drug utilization patterns by patients resident at the family health setting area - Ribeirão Preto, SP / Caracterização da utilização de medicamentos por indivíduos residentes na área compreendida pelo Núcleo de Saúde da Família III Ribeirão Preto, SP

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The aim of the study was to describe and analyze the prescribing pattern of drugs by the population from family health setting (NSF-III), establishing comparison among prescription from health services used by the patients. Was analyzed the rationality of the prescribing drugs by de development of drug rationality evaluation tool. Data from 3291 patients (990 families) of the NSF-III were analyzed. From then, 1215 had drug prescription made by the setting (prevalence of 60.1 %), 367 had prescription from Brazilian health service and 230 from private healthcare services. The therapeutic subgroups with major prescription prevalence from NSF-III were the drugs used in non-chronic conditions (analgesics, anti-inflammatory) and the drugs for chronic condition in the other health services. A drug rationality evaluation tool was develop with the objective of evaluate the drugs by pointing the rationality of prescribing using parameters for this purpose. Not just the drugs prescribed by the healthcare services but other drugs, like some present on essential drug lists, were evaluated with this tool. The results shown that the tool can be a important way to analyze prescribing drugs and compare prescription patterns among healthcare settings and services, providing value information that can be used to interventional and educational measurements to guarantee the medication safety.

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farmacoepidemiologia pharmacoepidemiology atenção primária primary care drug utilization studies estudos de utilização de medicamentos

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