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Volume 7, Issue 4 (Suppl)
Clin Exp Pharmacol
ISSN: 2161-1459 CPECR, an open access journal
Pharmacology Congress 2017
July 24-25, 2017
July 24-25, 2017 Melbourne, Australia
8
th
World Congress on
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Rational drug use among physicians and nurses who work in a university hospital
Kevser Erol
1
, D Aslantaş
1
, F Y Ozatik
2
and
U T Babaoglu
2
1
Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey
2
Ahi Evran University, Turkey
Introduction & Aim:
At the meeting which is assembled at Nairobi, World Health Organization (WHO) described rational
drug use as easy access to adequate drug in the meaning of period and dosage and for lowest cost. According to 2006 WHO
data, worldwide reserved fund for drug expenditure is 859 billion US Dollar. As a result of irrational drug use, bacterial
resistance occurs against antibiotics and affects treatments. This research was conducted to study knowledge and attitude of
college, hospital, physicians and nurses towards rational drug use.
Materials & Methods:
This is a descriptive study and it was conducted between 1-15 April 2016 in college and hospital,
physicians and nurses (n=316) who work at college and hospital form the sample of this study. However, due to unwillingness
of participation 212 (67.08%) individual were included in the study. Data were collected by survey form, which was made from
literature review. Ethical approval was taken before the application of the study.
Results:
32.8% of physicians had 11 to 15 years of professional experience, 87.5% of the participants reported that they are
specialist physician, 44.3% of the nurses had 11 to 15 years of professional experience, 79.1% of the nurses reported that
they participated in-service training, 68.70% of physicians stated that they participated in rational drug use training, 35.9%
of physicians participating in the study reported that they made an adverse report. When prescribing, they stated that they
used the
Vade mecum
(71.9%) as information source. Only a minority of participants (7.8%) reported that they had a poor
knowledge about bioequivalence, pharmacological properties (4.7%) and warnings. About 18.8% of physicians reported that
they were discussing with their patient if they did not prescribe the medicine desired by the patient. They said that 20.3%
of the physicians never interacted with other medicines or foods, 12.5% never gave information about drugs, 53.4% of the
participants stated that medication was omitted or not applied, 49.3% said that the medication was applied at the wrong time
and 18.9% said the medication was applied to the wrong patient. It was found that 10.8% of the participants were warnings
and precautions and 8.1% of them had very poor knowledge of drug interactions. When informational conditions were being
evaluated, warnings-precautions and drug interaction were reported by nurses as very bad (respectively 10.8% and 8.1%).
Conclusions:
Drug use problems continue despite important advancements in Turkey. The physicians’ knowledge and attitude
were comparable but need further improvement. The nurses do not have sufficient information about rational drug use and
they reported that they do make drug administration errors. They need periodic reinforcement about rational drug use. Drug
policies should be shaped accordingly.
Biography
Kevser Erol has completed her PhD from Dicle University and Postdoctoral studies from Anadolu University, School of Medicine. She is the Director of
Department of Pharmacology and has published more than 125 papers in reputed journals.
kerol@ogu.edu.trKevser Erol et al., Clin Exp Pharmacol 2017, 7:4 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2161-1459-C1-020