Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
East Mediterr Health J. 2011 Feb;17(2):132-9.
Unlike sub-optimal prescribing, rational prescribing, coupled with certain indicators, is associated with improved safety in drug use in terms of selecting appropriate drug for prescribing, 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 second 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 rational prescribing with its indicators, suboptimal prescribing, classification of medication errors, and how to achieve quality in health care prescribing worldwide and in Saudi Arabia.
与不理想的处方相比，合理的处方结合某些指标，与选择合适的药物进行处方、提高患者的生活质量和提供具有成本效益的护理有关，从而提高药物使用的安全性。在沙特阿拉伯，药物处方是一个相对没有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。本文是三篇综述文章中的第二篇，为在沙特阿拉伯的公共和私营初级医疗保健部门进行的 5 项相互关联的药物处方模式和药物错误研究系列提供背景。进行了 MEDLINE 检索，以确定过去 30 年来在同行评议期刊上发表的论文。本文回顾了合理处方及其指标、不理想处方、药物错误分类以及如何在全球和沙特阿拉伯实现医疗保健处方质量。
