Publications by authors named "Thiyahiny S Navaratinaraja"
Objective: To describe the price and affordability of key essential medicines for children in the private sector in Sri Lanka in 2017/2018, and compare the findings with 2009 data.
Design: National cross-sectional descriptive survey using the WHO/Health Action International medicine price methodology.
Setting And Participants: Data were collected from a representative sample of 54 private sector pharmacies selected from all 9 provinces in Sri Lanka using a multistage clustered approach.
Background And Objectives: Elderly individuals are more vulnerable to potential drug-drug interactions (pDDIs) as age-related physiological changes, polypharmacy and hospitalisations are known to increase the risk of pDDIs. The aims of this study were to assess the impact of hospitalisation and other associated factors on pDDIs in elderly patients, in a resource-limited setting.
Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of data of elderly patients (aged ≥ 65 years) admitted to the medical units of Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
Background: In the local setting, asthma control is assessed by symptoms and signs elicited by clinicians because of the limited availability of spirometry. Hence, we intended to develop a patient reported outcome measure (PROM) with more holistic interpretation that could also serve as a tool to measure the asthma control in resource limited settings. Therefore, this study was carried out in Northern Sri Lanka to develop and validate the Asthma Control PROM (AC-PROM) Tamil to measure the effectiveness of asthma prophylaxis based on symptoms, exacerbation and limitation of activity which could also serve as an easy measure of asthma control to the provider.
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