Topical corticosteroids in infants: prescribing pattern and prescribing errors in Bahrain.

Objective: A nationwide, primary care-based prescription audit in infants to determine the prescribing pattern and prescribing errors of topical corticosteroid preparations in Bahrain.

Method: Prescriptions dispensed for infants were collected for two successive weeks from 20 primary-care health centres.

Results: Among 2282 out of 102,084 prescriptions (2.

Diurnal variation of prescribing pattern of primary care doctors in Bahrain.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: To evaluate the variation in prescribing by primary care doctors during the morning and the evening clinics and to determine whether these prescribing patterns are influenced by doctors' training background.

Methods: A retrospective prescription-based study was carried out in 17 out of 20 primary care health centres in Bahrain distributed across the Kingdom.

Results: A total of 4472 prescriptions containing 10 588 drug-items covering the prescribing practice of approximately 90% primary care doctors were analysed.

Evaluation of drug utilization and prescribing errors in infants: a primary care prescription-based study.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the drug utilization trends and to describe the prevalence and type of medication-related prescribing errors in infants treated at primary care health centers in Bahrain. Prescriptions issued for infants were collected over a 2-week period in May 2004 from 20 health centers. Prescribing errors were classified as omission (minor and major), commission (incorrect information) and integration errors.

Rational use of antimicrobials in infants in primary care of Bahrain.

This nationwide prescription-based study was undertaken to evaluate antimicrobial prescribing for infants, and to identify prescribing errors in infants in 20 primary care health centres of Bahrain. Data was collected on a daily basis by pharmacists in May 2004. Antimicrobials ranked the 5th most common drugs prescribed in infants; beta-lactams, notably amoxycillin and cephalexin, comprised 81.