Prescribing habits in church-owned primary health care facilities in Dar Es Salaam and other Tanzanian coast regions

East African Medical Journal
A Y MasseleG Rimoy

Abstract

To assess prescribing practice of Primary Health Care (PHC) workers in church owned health care facilities using WHO drug use indicators. A cross-sectional study in which twenty primary health care facilities were randomly selected. Prescribing indicators were obtained by analysing outpatient records retrospectively for the past 14 months between January 1997 and February 1998. This period was chosen because of compete records of outpatient attendances. Patient care and facility indicators were recorded prospectively during the study period. The study was conducted in the Coast and Dar es Salaam regions of Tanzania. Six districts were randomly selected from both regions. The selected districts included Ilala, Temeke and Kinondoni in Dar es Salaam, Kibiti, Bagamoyo and Kisarawe in Coast region. Twenty primary health care facilities were randomly selected from the chosen districts. Patient registers were collected and patients' characteristics including age, sex, diagnosis, and drugs prescribed for the period January 1997 to February 1998 were recorded on data collection forms. Patient care indicators were measured by recording consultation time, dispensing time, per cent of drugs actually dispensed and adequately labelled wherea...Continue Reading

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