Samuel Fantawork, Dawit Helen, Ashenef Ayenew
1 School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Ther Innov Regul Sci. 2014 May;48(3):378-385. doi: 10.1177/2168479013516775.
A drug information center is a unit designed for receiving, collecting, analyzing, and providing unbiased, accurate, and up-to-date information about drugs and their use. The drug information centers located in 4 public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, were assessed in this study. They received a total of 467 drug information queries during their functional period until the time of this study. Among these queries, only 409 were eligible to be included in the analysis. The majority of the queries were from public hospitals (69%), mostly from health care professionals (94.9%), out of which physicians were the highest (49.7%), followed by pharmacists (32.8%). The study found that the most frequently encountered requests were related to therapeutic use (17.3%), followed by general product information and product availability; the highest number of queries concerned the use of anti-infectives (29%).
药物信息中心是一个旨在接收、收集、分析并提供有关药物及其使用的公正、准确和最新信息的单位。本研究对位于埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴4家公立医院的药物信息中心进行了评估。在其运行期间直至本研究开展之时，它们共收到467条药物信息咨询。在这些咨询中，只有409条符合纳入分析的条件。大多数咨询来自公立医院（69%），主要来自医护人员（94.9%），其中医生占比最高（49.7%），其次是药剂师（32.8%）。研究发现，最常遇到的咨询请求与治疗用途有关（17.3%），其次是一般产品信息和产品可获得性；咨询数量最多的是关于抗感染药物的使用（29%）。
