Table 5 Causes of DRPs identified in geriatric patients admitted from April to July to Medical and Surgical wards of JUMC, Ethiopia, 2017
Cause domain (8 categories) total = 466 | n (%) |
|---|---|
C1: Drug selection causes | 252 (54.1) |
New indication for drug treatment | 91 (36.1) |
No indication for drug | 52 (20.6) |
Inappropriate drug according to guidelines | 42 (16.7) |
Contra-indicated | 30 (11.9) |
Inappropriate duplication of therapeutic | 20 (7.9) |
Inappropriate combination of drugs, or drugs and food | 17 (6.8) |
C2: Drug form causes | 16 (3.4) |
In appropriate drug form | 16 (100) |
C3: dose selection causes | 68 (14.6) |
Drug dose too high | 46 (67.6) |
Drug dose too low | 22 (32.4) |
C4: treatment duration causes | 24 (5.2) |
Duration of treatment too long | 22 (91.7) |
Duration of treatment too short | 2 (8.3) |
C5: dispensing causes | 20 (4.3) |
Prescribed drug not available | 18 (90) |
Prescribing error (necessary information missing) | 2 (10) |
C6: drug use process causes | 57 (12.2) |
Drug not administered at all | 40 (70.2) |
Drug under administered | 11 (19.3) |
Drug over administered at all | 6 (10.5) |
C7: patient related causes | 22 (4.7) |
Patient uses unnecessary drug | 7 (31.8) |
Patient administered/uses drug in a wrong way | 5 (22.7) |
Patient cannot afford drug | 5 (22.7) |
Patient unable to use drug/form as directed | 5 (22.7) |
C8: other causes | 7 (1.5) |
No or inappropriate outcome monitoring | 7 (100) |