{"id":4091,"date":"2023-07-08T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2023-07-15T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T16:11:51","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2021-32-1-93-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2021-32-1-93-105\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2021) 32 (1) 93 – 105"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Evaluation of drug prescribing pattern among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at the 34 military\u00a0<\/b>hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone<\/b><\/p>

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Onome T. Abiri , Michael Uhumwangho , Stephen Sevalie , Billy Sankoh and Joseph Sam Kanu<\/p>

1Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine\u00a0and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone,<\/span><\/p>

2Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria<\/span><\/p>

3Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 34 Military Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone<\/p>

4Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine and\u00a0Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone<\/span><\/p>

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Corresponding Author: Onome T. Abiri<\/p>

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Background:\u00a0<\/b>Management of medical conditions in pregnancy is a challenge to clinicians. As a result, clinicians are\u00a0faced with a quagmire in making evidence-based therapeutic decisions regarding patient management. No study\u00a0<\/span>has been conducted in Sierra Leone to determine drug prescription patterns among pregnant women.<\/span><\/p>

Objective: <\/b>This study assessed the prescribing pattern of drugs among pregnant women who attended antenatal\u00a0care clinic at the 34 Military hospital in Freetown from May 1st, 2019 to October 31st, 2019.<\/span><\/p>

Methods:<\/b> A hospital-based cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted by reviewing medical charts of 314\u00a0pregnant women who attended antenatal clinic at the study site. The cases selected by simple random sampling\u00a0<\/span>were women who encountered at least one drug prescribed during their visit. The World Health Organisation\u00a0<\/span>(WHO) prescribing indicators and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pregnancy risk\u00a0<\/span>classification of medicines were used to assess drug prescribing patterns and contraindication in pregnancy\u00a0<\/span>respectively.<\/span><\/p>

Results:<\/b> Excluding minerals and vitamins, 99 (31.5%) of pregnant women from the 314 sampled for this study\u00a0received at least one drug. Multivitamins\/minerals 216 (40.3%) were the most frequently prescribed medicines.\u00a0<\/span>The average number of drugs prescribed per enc<\/span>ounter was 1.7 with a<\/span>n index of<\/span> <\/b>polypharmacy of 0.86. The\u00a0<\/span>percentage encounters with an antibiotic and injection prescribed and drugs prescribed by generic names were\u00a0<\/span>27.4%, 11.1%, and 40.0% respectively. About 221 (41.2%) of the drugs prescribed were from the FDA category A.\u00a0<\/span>No drug was prescribed from category X.<\/span><\/p>

Conclusions:<\/b> The prescribing pattern among prescribers was relatively rational, as three of the indicators met the\u00a0WHO standard, with room for more improvement. The occurrence of contraindicated medicines was low as a high\u00a0<\/span>proportion of drugs were prescribed from FDA category A<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Drugs, Pregnancy, Prescription, Pattern, 34 Military Hospital,<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Evaluation of drug prescribing pattern among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at the 34 military\u00a0hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone \u00a0 Onome T. Abiri , Michael Uhumwangho , Stephen Sevalie , Billy Sankoh and Joseph Sam Kanu 1Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine\u00a0and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4097,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}