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Patterns of documenting patients' medical records and antibiotic use for cases with acute respiratory infection in Basrah hospitals
Other Title(s)
نمط التوثيق الطبي و استخدام المضادات الحيوية لمرضى إلتهاب الرئوي الحاد في مستشفيات البصرة
Author
al-Hilfi, Riyad Abd al-Amir Husayn
Source
Issue
Vol. 15, Issue 1 (30 Jun. 2018), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
University of Thi-Qar College of Medicine
Publication Date
2018-06-30
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The present study was carried out to evaluate the process of documenting patients' medical records in addition to the pattern of antibiotic use in Basrah general hospitals.
A retrospective type of study was conducted for antibiotic prescription in 562 inpatients' medical records of those who were admitted to paediatric wards in five hospitals in Basrah governorate because of acute respiratory infections.
The study shows that 86% of the patients stayed for less than 5 days at the hospital with 13% of them stayed between 5-10 days.
All of the 562 patients' records were reviewed for documentation of the investigations taken during hospitalization, use of antibiotics and follow up while in hospital.
Around two thirds (65.5%) of the records were found to have no documentation for any investigation during hospitalization.
In addition, antibiotic therapy was found to be used in 83.3% of the cases.
By comparing the WHO indications for using antibiotic therapy in acute respiratory infections cases, it was found that antibiotics were prescribed without justifiable indications in 44.7% of patients.
The study recommended re-enforcing the adoption of updated drugs use protocols and guidelines especially on the use of antibiotics in hospitals and specifically in inpatient pediatric age groups.
Furthermore, assigning clinical pharmacists in the clinical inpatients setting is one of the study recommendations in order to monitor the clinical use of these medications.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Hilfi, Riyad Abd al-Amir Husayn. 2018. Patterns of documenting patients' medical records and antibiotic use for cases with acute respiratory infection in Basrah hospitals. Thi-Qar Medical Journal،Vol. 15, no. 1, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-834025
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Hilfi, Riyad Abd al-Amir Husayn. Patterns of documenting patients' medical records and antibiotic use for cases with acute respiratory infection in Basrah hospitals. Thi-Qar Medical Journal Vol. 15, no. 1 (2018), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-834025
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Hilfi, Riyad Abd al-Amir Husayn. Patterns of documenting patients' medical records and antibiotic use for cases with acute respiratory infection in Basrah hospitals. Thi-Qar Medical Journal. 2018. Vol. 15, no. 1, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-834025
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 8-10
Record ID
BIM-834025