Gema Kesehatan
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2022): Desember 2022

PRESCRIPTION COMPLETNESS FOR MALARIA PATIENTS AT ABEPURA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, JAYAPURA CITY

Dzukharian Munandar (POLTEKKES KEMENKES JAYAPURA)
Brechkerts Lieske Angruni Tukayo (PUIPK Poltekkes Kemenkes Jayapura)
Rahayu Samalo (Poltekkes Kemenkes Jayapura)
Mersi Naomi Rumayomi (Poltekkes kemenkes Jayapura)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Dec 2022

Abstract

A prescription, according to the definition based on the Minister of  Health, is a request written by a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist to prepare and deliver drugs to patients according to applicable regulations. Before submitting a prescription, it is necessary to examine administrative, pharmaceutical, and clinical aspects to reduce medication errors and increase patient safety rates. This study aims to describe the completeness of prescriptions for malaria patients at the Abepura Health Center. This type of research was descriptive, with secondary data collection from malaria patient prescriptions for one month. The study's results obtained 169 pills and grouped by age; the highest was in the 17-25 year age group with 50 patients (29.6%). Malaria sufferers were dominated by men, namely 110 patients (65%). According to the completeness of prescriptions, regarding patient data, 157 pills (93%) were complete; regarding doctor data, 169 medicines were incomplete (100%); regarding drug data, 112 prescriptions (66.3%) were done; and other administrative related data were 169 prescriptions. Complete (100%). Medicines for patients with malaria at the Abepura Health Center are not exclusive. Keywords: Complete prescriptions, Community health center, Malaria prescriptions

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Journal Info

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gk

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Subject

Health Professions Medicine & Pharmacology Nursing Public Health

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Gema kesehatan is published by Poltekkes Kemenkes Jayapura twice a year. p-ISSN 2088-5083/e-ISSN 2654-8100. Kemdikbudristek has accredited the Gema Kesehatan journal to rank four from 2019 to 2023 based on the decree:164/E/KPT/2021. We believe that open-source knowledge is able to produce something ...