[e-drug] Compounding and dispensing problems in Indonesia (3)

["Manusika Rai" <edp@druknet.bt>]

E-DRUG: Compounding and dispensing problems in Indonesia (3)
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One way I would recommend is to conduct prescription 
surveys i.e. collect random samples of prescriptions from 
the hospital pharmacy, say over a period of one month. 
Photocopy them and tabulate the findings such as number of 
drugs per prescription, no of antibiotics, and etc. you 
may then present the findings to the prescribers including 
the cost to the patients for buying such medicines. It may 
help for them to see the results themselves.

Secondly, you may want to start ADR reporting or I am sure 
Indonesia already has one. Such prescribing parctice, as 
you have mentioned, may have caused unwanted side effects 
in patients or other drug related problems. If you can 
link the cause and effect, it might help.

Hope this helps.

Manusika Rai
Essential Drugs Programme Bhutan
E-mail: edp@druknet.bt