[Impact of the HEARTS Initiative in a second-level health institution in ColombiaImpacto da iniciativa HEARTS em um estabelecimento de atenção secundária à saúde na Colômbia].

Objective: To identify the impact of the HEARTS initiative on patients with high blood pressure treated in a Colombian hospital.

Methods: Quasi-experimental, retrospective study between 2017 and 2019 with hypertensive patients over 18 years of age included in the HEARTS strategy and treated at the Santa Mónica Hospital in the municipality of Dosquebradas, department of Risaralda. The unit of analysis was medical history.

Self-medication and the 'infodemic' during mandatory preventive isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aim: Quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic altered the supply and demand of health services. This, together with the 'infodemic' and generalized panic, could alter the patterns of self-medication in the population. The objective was to characterize the patterns of self-medication in four cities of Colombia during mandatory preventive isolation in 2020.

Prescribing patterns of antiparkinson drugs in a group of Colombian patients, 2015.

Introduction: Parkinson's disease, whose prevalence in Colombia is 4.7 per 1,000 inhabitants, is a public health problem and a therapeutic challenge for health professionals.

Objective: To determine the prescribing patterns of antiparkinson drugs and the variables associated with its use in a population from Colombia.

An economic analysis of inadequate prescription of antiulcer medications for in-hospital patients at a third level institution in Colombia.

Introduction: The prescription and costs of antiulcer medications for in-hospital use have increased during recent years with reported inadequate use and underused.

Aim: To determine the patterns of prescription-indication and also perform an economic analysis of the overcost caused by the non-justified use of antiulcer medications in a third level hospital in Colombia.

Materials And Methods: Cross-sectional study of prescription-indication of antiulcer medications for patients hospitalized in "Hospital Universitario San Jorge" of Pereira during July of 2012.