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Publication Open Access Impact of a short postgraduate course in rational pharmacotherapy for general practitioners: Rational pharmacotherapy course: impact on GPs(2003-11-14) AKICI, AHMET; Akici, Ahmet; Kalaça, Sibel; Ugurlu, M. Ümit; Karaalp, Atila; Çali, Şanda; Oktay, ŞulePublication Metadata only Antihypertensive drug utilization at health centres in a district of Istanbul(SPRINGER, 2007) AKICI, AHMET; Akici, Ahmet; Kalaca, Sibel; Ugurlu, Uemit; Toklu, Hale Z.; Oktay, SuleObjective: Since irrational use of antihypertensives has considerable clinical and economical consequences, this study was conducted to evaluate antihypertensive drug utilization in hypertension at seven State Health Centres in Istanbul. Method: A total of 297 hypertensive patients who accepted to participate in the study were evaluated by a face-to-face questionnaire and a copy of their prescriptions were collected for prescription analysis. Results: Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (31.7%), calcium channel blockers (28.8%), diuretics (16.2%), beta blockers (7.5%) and others (15.8%) have been prescribed. There were no statistically significant relation between prescribed antihypertensive drug groups and gender, age, and NSAIDs co-prescribing. The most frequent comorbidity in hypertensive patients was diabetes mellitus (10.4%) and calcium channel blockers (35.5%) have been prescribed to them as a first antihypertensive medication. Average cost per prescription was $42.7 +/- 38.1. According to the patients' self-reporting, the majority of them (85%) were prescribed without a physical examination. The physicians failed to write the prescriptions appropriately; only 5% of the scripts contained all information about the drug(s) and use instructions in full format. Conclusion: The present study indicates that GPs working at primary healthcare centres were rational in terms of antihypertensive drug choice. However, they poorly applied rational pharmacotherapy principles such as (a) writing a good prescription which is easily readable by the pharmacist and the patient and that contains full essential information; (b) a medical examination of the patient to assess her/his current clinical condition; and (c) taking care of not prescribing drugs with potential interaction like antihypertensives and NSAIDs together.Publication Metadata only Comparison of rational pharmacotherapy decision-making competence of general practitioners with intern doctors(SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2004) AKICI, AHMET; Akici, A; Kalaca, S; Goren, MZ; Akkan, AG; Karaalp, A; Demir, D; Ugurlu, U; Oktay, SObjective. The aim of this study was to compare rational pharmacotherapy decision-making competency of interns (final-year medical students) who had received rational pharmacotherapy education (RPE), with their classmates at another medical school and general practitioners (GPs) who had not been exposed to RPE. Design. A written, objective, structured clinical examination (OSCE), consisting of open and structured questions, was given to all participants. The participants were expected to make a treatment plan and prescribe for simple, uncomplicated beta-hemolytic streptococcal tonsillitis and mild-to-moderate essential hypertension patients, explain their proposed treatment plans and reasons affecting their drug choice. After the OSCE, a questionnaire to assess knowledge of the rational use of drugs was given to the participants. Results. Fifty RPE(+) interns, 54 RPE(-) interns and 53 GPs participated in the study. Mean scores of RPE(+) interns were higher than those of GPs, which were in turn found to be higher than those of RPE(-) interns for all cases. The RPE(+) interns scored the highest regarding all components of rational pharmacotherapy process for all cases of both indications. However, participants in all groups had higher scores for the structured questions compared with the corresponding open ones for both diseases. Prescription analysis also revealed better results for RPE(+) interns regarding the number of drugs/prescription and treatment costs. Conclusion. The present study demonstrated that the final-year medical students (interns) markedly benefited from undergraduate RPE at the medical school in developing rational prescribing skills compared with their classmates from a medical school with traditional pharmacology education. Interestingly, they got higher scores than not only RPE(-) interns, but also than the GPs participating in this study, indicating the urgent need for continuous medical education programs in this field throughout the country for practicing GPs.Publication Metadata only Patient knowledge about drugs prescribed at primary healthcare facilities(WILEY, 2004) AKICI, AHMET; Akici, A; Kalaca, S; Ugurlu, MU; Toklu, HZ; Iskender, E; Oktay, SObjective Providing adequate information to the patients about their drugs is an essential principle of rational pharmacotherapy. This study investigates the knowledge of general practice patients about their drugs, since the level of knowledge of the patient about the medication is highly associated with the outcome of the therapy. Methods A total of 1618 patients who applied to primary healthcare centers in Istanbul and accepted to participate in the study were asked about the name(s) and effect(s) of the drug(s) on their prescriptions. Factors that might influence the background knowledge and perception of patients such as sociodemographic characteristics, drug-use habits and practitioners' attitudes were also questioned. Information provided by the patients was compared with the prescriptions. Results Only 10.9% of the respondents could recall the names of their drug(s) correctly. Level of education, and gender, had a positive impact on recalling drug names. Patients, who received a refill prescription, with a chronic disease, and who had self-medication before applying to the health center reported more accurate information. Less than half of the practitioners had informed their patients about the drug effects; and 7% of the patients have been requested to repeat the instructions and warnings about his/her medication(s). The patients to name their drugs correctly also knew the drug effects twice as much the patients who could not recall their drug(s)'name. The drugs which were correctly named were the ones used in chronic diseases. Conclusion It appears that patients, particularly who are poorly educated, males, and who received a first prescription know little about their prescribed drugs. These results suggest that patients' education about drugs is an important issue regarding rational drug use which deserves urgent improvement. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.