Ceftriaxone Use Evaluation in Western Zone Tigray Hospitals, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drug use evaluation is a systematic approach to determining the appropriateness of drug use, identifying drug therapy problems, and proposing interventions. Ceftriaxone is one of the most widely used drugs in hospitals, requiring the performance of drug use evaluation. This study was aimed at evaluating the appropriateness of ceftriaxone use at Kahsay Abera and Mearg hospitals in the Western zone of Tigray, Ethiopia.

Methods

An institution-based retrospective cross-sectional study design was conducted in both hospitals from December 2015 to August 2016 using standardized and pretested data collection formats. Systematic random sampling was used, and a total of 800 patients' medication records (patients who took ceftriaxone) from both hospitals (400 each) were asse

SUBMITTER: Shegute T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10661873 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature