Analysis of drug prescriptions in primary health care in a city in the Centro-potiguar

• Autor(a) principal: Jota, Christyan de Azevedo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Batista, Almária Mariz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbmfc.org.br/rbmfc/article/view/2432
• topic: Assistência farmacêutica; Prescrições de medicamentos; Atenção primária à saúde.; Pharmaceutical services; Drug prescriptions; Primary health care.; Servicios farmacéuticos; Prescripciones de Medicamentos; Atención primaria de salud.

Introduction: The non-compliance of drug prescriptions with regulations that control this process is a reality of the health care process. Objectives: Thus, this study aimed to analyze medical and dental prescriptions of the primary health system in the city of Angicos-Rio Grande do Norte, in accordance with the current law. Methods: Accordingly, a cross-sectional descriptive-exploratory study was conducted. Second copies of prescriptions and special control prescriptions prepared by all physicians and dentists working in primary health care in this municipality, from January to June 2018, were analyzed. Information included the patient's name, age and sex. route of administration, dosage/concentration, duration of treatment, drug nomenclature, and stamp and signature of the prescriber. Results: A total of 3,725 prescriptions were analyzed, in which 566 (15.19%) were not in compliance with the law, where most problematic were user identification (68.02%), date of prescription (34.1%). drug nomenclature (DCB/DCI) (18.02%), duration of treatment (13.96%) and dosage (10.6%). Conclusions: These results point to the need for permanent education and inspection strategies regarding compliance with the law to be developed more assiduously.