Maruzi Anoosheh, Sabbaghian-Tousi Sara, Karimi Gholamreza, Jabbari Roya, Elyasi Sepideh
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran.
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Iran J Pharm Res. 2021 Winter;20(1):53-61. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2020.112228.13617.
The Mashhad drug and poison information center (MDPIC) was officially established in 2000 to provide up-to-date information on medications. The objective of this study is to provide an epidemiologic profile of drug inquiry and poisoning-related phone calls to MDPIC from 2007 to 2017. This article is a descriptive retrospective study in which all inquiries about drugs and poisoning cases received by MDPIC, from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2017, were retrieved from its database for analysis. A total of 100997 cases were analyzed. The most frequent calls were from individuals in the age group of 18 to 60 years old (70.21%). The majority of callers were women (73.08%). The public made 95.11% of calls, and 4.89% were related to health care professionals. The queries were mainly related to therapeutic uses of drugs (24.03%), followed by adverse drug reactions (18.96%). Given that 99.23% of calls were related to drug information inquiries, the most common drugs questioned about were antimicrobial (12.3%) and vitamin and minerals (10.76%), whereas 0.77% of calls were about poisoning and the majority of them were due to drugs poisoning. Micromedex® was the most commonly used reference to answer the inquiries. This report shows an updated epidemiological evaluation on recorded calls in the drug and poison information center in Mashhad. Since there is no other similar report, this can provide valuable information on the trend of drug usage and may guide further strategies in giving proper information to public and health centers.
马什哈德药物与毒物信息中心（MDPIC）于2000年正式成立，旨在提供有关药物的最新信息。本研究的目的是提供2007年至2017年期间拨打MDPIC的药物咨询和中毒相关电话的流行病学概况。本文是一项描述性回顾性研究，从MDPIC的数据库中检索了2007年1月1日至2017年12月31日期间收到的所有关于药物和中毒病例的咨询，进行分析。共分析了100997例病例。最常见的来电者是年龄在18至60岁之间的个人（70.21%）。大多数来电者为女性（73.08%）。公众拨打的电话占95.11%，与医疗保健专业人员相关的电话占4.89%。咨询主要与药物的治疗用途有关（24.03%），其次是药物不良反应（18.96%）。鉴于99.23%的电话与药物信息咨询有关，被询问最多的药物是抗菌药物（12.3%）和维生素及矿物质（10.76%），而0.77%的电话是关于中毒的，其中大多数是药物中毒。Micromedex®是回答咨询时最常用的参考资料。本报告展示了对马什哈德药物与毒物信息中心记录电话的最新流行病学评估。由于没有其他类似报告，这可以提供有关药物使用趋势的有价值信息，并可能指导向公众和卫生中心提供适当信息的进一步策略。
