Assessment of Quality of Out-patient Prescriptions in the National Health Insurance Scheme Unit of a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

摘要

ABSTRACT The fact that today's evidence based guidelines recommends several drugs in the treatment of a single medical condition make drug treatment particularly challenging. Consequently, many patients use a number of medications a situation referred to as polypharmacy. Polypharmacy is linked to occurrence of health risk through increased drug therapy problems like adverse drug reactions, medication error, adherence problem, economic burden etc. This study characterized the quality of out-pati.