General Administration for Mental Health and Social Services and Mledical Research, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
East Mediterr Health J. 2011 Feb;17(2):126-31.
Rational prescribing is associated with improved safety in drug use, better quality of life for patients and cost-effective care. Medication prescribing is a relatively unexplored area of research in Saudi Arabia and until now most studies have been in the secondary and tertiary health care system. This paper is the first of 3 review articles that form the background for a series of 5 interconnected studies of prescribing patterns and medication errors in the public and private primary health care sectors of Saudi Arabia. A MEDLINE search was conducted to identify papers published in peer-reviewed journals over the previous 3 decades. The paper reviews variations in prescribing patterns and influences on physicians' prescribing behaviour worldwide and in Saudi Arabia.
合理处方与改善药物使用安全性、提高患者生活质量和提供具有成本效益的医疗服务有关。在沙特阿拉伯，药物处方是一个相对未得到充分研究的领域，到目前为止，大多数研究都集中在二级和三级医疗保健系统。本文是 3 篇综述文章中的第一篇，为在沙特阿拉伯的公共和私营初级医疗保健部门进行的处方模式和药物错误的 5 项相互关联的研究系列提供了背景。对过去 30 年发表在同行评议期刊上的论文进行了 MEDLINE 检索。本文综述了全球和在沙特阿拉伯处方模式的差异及其对医生处方行为的影响。
