Tumwikirize A W, Ogwal-Okeng J W, Vernby A, Anokbonggo W W, Gustafsson L L, Lundborg C S
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Afr Health Sci. 2011 Sep;11(3):493-8.
Provision of access to drug information by prescribers and other health care professionals is important in pharmacotherapy. At the time of this study there was very scanty literature in this area from Africa.
To assess use of a pilot drug information centre (DIC) which was set up in a department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in a university teaching hospital in Uganda.
This was a situational analysis with a prospective study design. The pilot DIC was established and its use over an eleven-month period was assessed. The received queries were evaluated for source of the query, reason for the query and type of query.
During the 11 months 297 queries were received, 72.3% of which were from public hospitals. Most were from prescribing doctors (54.2%). Majority were on drug-drug interaction (41.2%), followed by therapy (23.2%). Out of 197 specific drug requests, 65.5% were on antiretroviral.
We found that healthcare professionals were enthusiastically using the drug information centre. It is, therefore, necessary and feasible to establish a DIC in Uganda that will enable these professionals to readily access drug information.
在药物治疗中，由开处方者和其他医疗保健专业人员提供药物信息渠道非常重要。在本研究开展之时，非洲该领域的文献非常匮乏。
评估在乌干达一家大学教学医院的药理学与治疗学系设立的试点药物信息中心（DIC）的使用情况。
这是一项采用前瞻性研究设计的情境分析。设立了试点药物信息中心，并对其在11个月期间的使用情况进行了评估。对接收到的查询进行了查询来源、查询原因和查询类型的评估。
在这11个月期间共收到297个查询，其中72.3%来自公立医院。大多数来自开处方的医生（54.2%）。多数查询涉及药物相互作用（41.2%），其次是治疗（23.2%）。在197个具体药物请求中，65.5%是关于抗逆转录病毒药物的。
我们发现医疗保健专业人员积极使用药物信息中心。因此，在乌干达建立一个药物信息中心是必要且可行的，这将使这些专业人员能够方便地获取药物信息。
