Drug Interaction Management as Drug Related Problems in Patients Hospital Acute Respiratory Infections in Health Jumpandang Baru, Makassar

Abstract

Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) in developing countries is the most common cause of death. Drug Related Problems (DRPs) are unexpected events, such as patient experience that involves drug therapy. The purpose of this study is to determine the percentage of occurrence of each of the DRPs which include drugs incorrect, inaccurate doses which doses less and dosages, and potential drug interactions in the therapeutic treatment of acute respiratory infections in hospitalized patients Jumpandang Baru Health Centre , Makassar 2015. This research is non experimental descriptive research design and data retrieval of medical records retrospectively. Of the 81 cases of ARI hospitalized patients who entered the inclusion criteria, the patients recorded acute respiratory tract infections include sinusitis, and pharyngitis, as well as patients undergoing inpatient treatment were recorded to get treatment at public health centers of Jumpandang Baru Makassar 2015. Data collection using purposive sampling. Analysis incidence of drug related problems is done by comparing the results with standard book descriptively. The results of the 81 cases of patients who met the inclusion criteria showed the incidence of drug interaction categories DRPs were 51 cases (62.96%), a dose of less than 40 cases (49.38%), doses were 26 cases (32.10%) and not finding any drugs DRPs category of total drugs analyzed.