Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Potentially inappropriate medication use in a city of Southeast Brazil |
| Authors: |
Pinto, Mauro Cunha Xavier, Ferré, Felipe, Pinheiro, Marcos Luciano Pimenta |
| Source: |
Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. March 2012 48(1) |
| Publisher Information: |
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, 2012. |
| Publication Year: |
2012 |
| Subject Terms: |
Medicines/rational use, Medicines/inappropriate use, Self-medication, Pharmacoepidemiology |
| More Details: |
Potentially inappropriate medication use by the Diamantina (Minas Gerais State) population was investigated by analyzing medicine consumption, self-medication, polypharmacy and drug interactions of medicines prescribed among those interviewed. Level of knowledge about rational drug use and its relationship to socio-economic variables was also evaluated using a semi-structured questionnaire. This survey was based on stratified sampling of 423 individuals selected randomly. The prevalence of prescription drug consumption was 42.32% (n=179) and cardiovascular drugs were the most prescribed. Drug interactions were found in 45.81% (n=82) of prescriptions and 92.68% (n=76) of these interactions were moderate, with co-administration of cardiovascular drugs occurring in more than half of the cases. The inappropriate use of medication, according to Beers criteria, occurred in 44.73% of prescriptions to the elderly. The prevalence of self-medication was 63.34% (n=268) while 21.99% (n=91) of individuals administered medications to their children without formal prescriptions, where this practice was associated to analgesic/antipyretic consumption. The population showed a high prevalence of inappropriate use of drugs across all strata of society, representing an issue requiring effective actions to promote rational use of medicines. |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
text/html |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1984-8250 |
| DOI: |
10.1590/S1984-82502012000100009 |
| Access URL: |
http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502012000100009 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edssci.S1984.82502012000100009 |
| Database: |
SciELO |
