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Implementation of Drug Administration with High Awareness (LASA/ Look Alike Sound Alike and High Alert) for Patient Safety at Pharmacies in Surakarta Handri Mursiti; Galau Menanti Embri Baskara Putra Mesias; Peni Indrayudha
Pharmacon: Jurnal Farmasi Indonesia Vol 19, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.23917/pharmacon.v19i2.20019

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LASA (Look Alike Sound Alike) are drugs that have similar names, looks and speech and need to be watched out for to prevent no errors in taking medication (dispensing error) by pharmacists. High-alert (HA) medication is a drug that must be watched out for because it often causes errors or serious errors (sentinel events) and drugs that have a high risk of causing Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR). One of the pharmacist duties at a pharmacy is to organize LASA and HA drugs properly to prevent medication errors. The purpose of this study is to determine the knowledge of pharmacist in the city of Surakarta on the process of good and safe drug storage and able to implement safe and high alert drug storage for patient/consumer safety. The type of research is experimental research. The study was conducted from September 1, 2021 to January 20, 2022. The number of samples were 117 pharmacists who worked in different pharmacy locations. The data obtained were scored and analyzed using the SPPS 25 test, the Shapiro-Wilk normality test, followed by the Paired sample T-Test. The results of this study indicate that there is an effect of socialization intervention using the HA and LASA flyer, namely an increase in knowledge and implementation of the arrangement of HA and LASA drugs. Data showed that the results of pre-test 17.52% and post-test 89.74% (p=0.000; p0.05). From this study, it was found that there was a significant change in the level of implementation of the LASA and HA drug arrangement from pharmacists after the intervention using the LASA/HA drug arrangement flyer.
A Systematic Review: Ethnomedicinal Uses And Pharmacological Activity Of Male Papaya Flower (Carica papaya L.) Purwaningsih, Purwaningsih; Indrayudha, Peni
Pharmacon: Jurnal Farmasi Indonesia Vol 21, Special Issue 1, 2024
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.23917/pharmacon.v21i0.23474

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An extensively utilized plant in traditional medicine is the papaya plant (Carica papaya L.). Papaya plants are useful in almost all parts, one part of (Carica papaya  L.) that has potential is the papaya flowers. Papaya flowers are often used as a vegetable, but papaya flowers also have health benefits. The purpose of this review is to present thorough and current information on the ethnomedical usage and pharmacological activity of male papaya flowers. The search method was carried out using relevant keywords of the following databases: Google Scholar, ScienDirect, and NCBI. The results of the article search after going through the article selection process based on the database resulted in 25 relevant articles. Male papaya flowers contain many bioactive compounds known pharmacological activities, including antioxidant, anticancer, antibacterial, antidiabetic, analgesic, wound healing, antihyperlipidemic, bioinsecticide, tyrosinase inhibition and sun protection activity. This pharmacological activity may be caused by the large number of bioactive compounds contained in male papaya flowers.