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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Field tests for rational drug use in twelve developing countries
The Lancet, Volume 342, No. 8884, Year 1993
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Description
Increasing efforts are being made to improve drug-use practices and prescribing behaviour in developing countries. An essential tool for such work is an objective and standard method of assessment. We present here a set of drug-use indicators produced and tested in twelve developing countries. We describe practical applications, which include the use of indicators to increase awareness among prescribers in Malawi and Bangladesh, to identify priorities for action (eg, polypharmacy in Indonesia and Nigeria, overuse of injections in Uganda, Sudan, and Nigeria, and low percentage of patients who understood the dosage schedule in Malawi), and to quantify the impact of interventions in Yemen, Uganda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. © 1993.
Authors & Co-Authors
Hogerzeil, Hans V.
Switzerland, Geneva
Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
Bimo,
Indonesia, Jakarta
Health Division
Ross-Degnan, Dennis G.
United States, Boston
Harvard Medical School
Laing, Richard Ogilvie
United States
International Network for Rational use of Drugs
Ofori‐Adjei, David
Ghana, Accra
University of Ghana
Santoso, Budiono
Indonesia, Yogyakarta
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Azad Chowdhury, A. K.
United Kingdom
Dhaka University
Das, A. M.
Bangladesh, Dhaka
National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine
Kafle, K. K.
Nepal, Kathmandu
Trlbhuvan University Hospital
Mabadeje, Abdul Fattah Biola
Nigeria, Lagos
University of Lagos
Massele, Amos Y.
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
Muhimbili Medical Centre
Statistics
Citations: 345
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 11
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/0140-6736(93)92760-Q
ISSN:
01406736
Study Locations
Malawi
Nigeria
Sudan
Uganda
Zimbabwe