Drug utilization studies in pregnancy

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lolkje Jong-Van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Drug Utilization ◽  
Drug Utilization Studies ◽  
In Pregnancy

Drug use in pregnancy: an overview of epidemiological (drug utilization) studies

1990 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bonati ◽  
R. Bortolus ◽  
F. Marchetti ◽  
M. Romero ◽  
G. Tognoni
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Utilization ◽  
Drug Utilization Studies ◽  
In Pregnancy

Drug Utilization Studies – An Overview

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 803-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalini S ◽  
Ravichandran V ◽  
Saraswathi R ◽  
BK Mohanty ◽  
Dhanaraj S K
Keyword(s):  
Drug Utilization ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Medical Prescription ◽  
Drug Usage ◽  
Current State ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
Drug Utilization Studies ◽  
Drug Expenditures

 Aspire of the Drug Utilization Studies (DUS) is to appraise factors related to the prescribing, dispensing, administering and taking of medication, and it’s associated. Since the middle of twentieth century, interest in DUS has been escalating, first for market-only purposes, then for appraising the quality of medical prescription and comparing patterns of use of specific drugs. The scope of DUS is to evaluate the current state and future trends of drug usage, to estimate roughly disease pervasiveness, drug expenditures, aptness of prescriptions and adherence to evidence-based recommendations. The increasing magnitude of DUS as a valuable investigation resource in pharmacoepidemiology has been bridging it with other health allied areas, such as public health, rational use of drug, evidence based drug use, pharmacovigilance, pharmacoeconomics, eco-pharmacovigilance and pharmacogenetics.

scholarly journals Review of Drug Utilization Studies in Neonatal Units: A Global Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 5669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Al-Turkait ◽  
Lisa Szatkowski ◽  
Imti Choonara ◽  
Shalini Ojha
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Utilization ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Rational Prescribing ◽  
Drug Use Patterns ◽  
General Drug ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Drug Utilization Studies

Rational prescribing is challenging in neonatology. Drug utilization studies help identify and define the problem. We performed a review of the literature on drug use in neonatal units and describe global variations. We searched databases (EMBASE, CINAHL and Medline) from inception to July 2020, screened studies and extracted relevant data (two reviewers). The search revealed 573 studies of which 84 were included. India (n = 14) and the USA (n = 13) reported the most. Data collection was prospective (n = 56) and retrospective (n = 26), mostly (n = 52) from one center only. Sixty studies described general drug use in 34 to 450,386 infants (median (IQR) 190 (91–767)) over a median (IQR) of 6 (3–18) months. Of the participants, 20–87% were preterm. The mean number of drugs per infant (range 11.1 to 1.7, pooled mean (SD) 4 (2.4)) was high with some reporting very high burden (≥30 drugs per infant in 8 studies). This was not associated with the proportion of preterm infants included. Antibiotics were the most frequently used drug. Drug use patterns were generally uniform with some variation in antibiotic use and more use of phenobarbitone in Asia. This study provides a global perspective on drug utilization in neonates and highlights the need for better quality information to assess rational prescribing.

scholarly journals Agreement between different recall periods in drug utilization studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassia Garcia Moraes ◽  
Sotero Serrate Mengue ◽  
Tatiane da Silva Dal Pizzol
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Utilization ◽  
Recall Period ◽  
Percent Agreement ◽  
Drug Utilization Studies ◽  
24 Hour Recall ◽  
High Level ◽  
Continuous Use ◽  
First Interview ◽  
Level Of Agreement

ABSTRACT: Objective: To assess the agreement between three recall periods for self-reported drug use using a 24-hour recall period as reference. Methods: Participants were allocated into three groups with different recall periods of 7, 14 and 30 days and were interviewed at two different times. A 24-hour recall questionnaire was answered during the first interview, and a questionnaire on drug use over the different recall periods tested was answered during the second interview. The agreement between the questionnaires was evaluated using percent agreement and kappa. Results: For continuous drugs, percent agreement varied between 92 and 99% and kappa varied between 0.71 and 0.97 for three periods tested. For drugs of occasional use, percent agreement varied between 63 and 81% and kappa varied between 0.27 and 0.52. The prevalence of drugs, particularly those of occasional use, increases with time. Conclusions: The high level of agreement between the three recall periods suggests that all of them are valid for the investigation of drugs of continuous use.

A study of drug utilization in pregnancy in the light of known risks: is there room for improvement?

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.T.W. de Jong-van den Berg ◽  
P.B. van den Berg ◽  
P.W.J. Peters ◽  
F.M. Haaijer-Ruskamp
Keyword(s):  
Drug Utilization ◽  
In Pregnancy

scholarly journals DRUG UTILIZATION ASSESSMENT IN PREGNANCY WOMEN: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Pradeep Battula ◽  
Sruthi Kommireddy ◽  
K Soumya Lakshmi ◽  
S Neelo Farhana ◽  
V Sai Kiran Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Drug Utilization ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
In Pregnancy
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