Poster
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6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
Carmen Portuondo(1), Miriam Cires(2)
(1)(2)Centro para el Desarrollo de la Farmacoepidemiologia - Ciudad Habana. Cuba
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[Hygiene, Public Health & Preventive Medicine] |
[Health Informatics] |
Between January 1998 and December 1999 , 79 enquieres were received. The majority come from primary health care ( 32 ; 40 % ) as we can observed on the table 1
Table 1
Enquires according to the procedent
No. %
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Primary health care 32 40
Hospitals 18 23
Others 29 37
Total 79 100
Table 2 We can observated that 80% of the enquires were get fron psysicians.
No. %
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Physicians 63 80
Pharmacists 11 12
Patients 3 5
Others 2 3
Total 79 100
The prescribers who enquire can not be considered representative of all prescribers.
Table 3. Topics of enquiries
Enquiries*
Topic No. %
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Factual or evaluated documentation 57 72
Adverse reaction 8 10
Choice of drugs or therapeutic strategy 7 9
Interactions 3 4
Drugs in children 3 4
Technology 3 4
Drug in pregnancy 2 3
(*) The number and percentages sum up more than 79 and 100 respectively , because for some enquires more than one topic is recorded.
The topics of enquiries more relevant was factual of evaluated documentation with 72 % , it follows of adverse reaction ( 10 % ) and choice of drugs or therapeutic strategy 9 %
Table 4 Groups of drugs involved in therapeutic consultation
Group Enquiries
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J01 General anti-infectives systemic 12 15
M01 Anti-inflammatory 11 14
N06 Psycoanaleptics 9 11
A11 Vitamines 8 10
C02 Hypotensives 7 9
R03 anti-asthmatics 5 6
C03 Diuretic 3 4
A02 Anti-peptic ulcerants 3 4
H05 Hormonas 3 4
R06 Histamine H1 receptor antagonist 3 4
C01 Anti-anginal 2 3
A10 Hipoglycaemic agent 1 1
P01 Antiparasitics products 1 1
Otros 11 14
The group of drug more asked about were general anti-infectives systemic and anti-inflammatory drugs.
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