Table 5.
Dispensers’ checking the correct prescription writing format while dispensing (n=30), January 2012
| Variables | Always
|
Often
|
Sometimes (when needed)
|
Never
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Name of drug(s) | 30 | 100 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Age of the patient | 27 | 90 | 1 | 3.3 | 1 | 3.3 | 1 | 3.3 |
| Dosage form | 29 | 96.7 | 1 | 3.3 | – | – | – | – |
| RDA | 27 | 90 | 1 | 3.3 | 2 | 6.7 | – | – |
| Duration | 26 | 86.7 | 2 | 6.7 | 2 | 6.7 | – | – |
| FoA | 26 | 86.7 | 2 | 6.7 | 2 | 6.7 | – | – |
| ADHF | 22 | 73.3 | 66 | 20 | 2 | 6.7 | – | – |
| TAPD | 15 | 50 | 4 | 13.3 | 11 | 36.7 | – | – |
| Drug interactions | 16 | 53.3 | 7 | 23.3 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 3.3 |
| TPS | 13 | 43.3 | 8 | 26.7 | 7 | 23.3 | 2 | 6.7 |
Abbreviations: RDA, route of drug administrations; FoA, frequency of administration; ADHF, availability of drug in the health facility; TAPD, therapeutic appropriateness of the prescribed drugs; TPS, telling the proper storage condition to the patient.