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Background@#One of the main goals of pharmaceutical care is the developing proper drug use and high lighted “The Government of Mongolia is aiming to provide health organizations and veterinary clinic by highly effective, safe, quality assured and selectable drugs with continuous, uniform and accessible”.</br> World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that there are 5 standard to assess pharmaceutical care services. In Mongolia, people unused drugs with prescription and doctor direction. Background of this survey is to define appropriate use of drug in Ulaanbaatar citizen according to the WHO criteria and to determine the necessary parameters for the proper use of drugs in the future. @*Discussion@#The survey was based on the WHO recommendation and selection of pharmacies nearby the hospitals which we selected each 50 and 50 citizen’s prescription from total 12 hospital of Ulaanbaatar city, a total of 600 recipes and questionnaire on specific drug information and knowledge of clients.@*Result@#Average counseling was 1.02 minutes, duration of dispense was 35.3 seconds, 85% of drug % from written on prescription and 61.6% of customers knowledge about drug.@*Conclusion@#</br>1. It doesn’t meet the requirements of pharmaceutical assistance because of the citizen’s drug knowledge is insufficient and pharmacist’s counseling time is not enough. </br>2. Customer’s knowledge about drug name, dose, and method of usage is 62% and it is insufficient.
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@#BACKGROUND: The Mongolian National drug policy states, “The rational drug rehabilitation is one of the main goals of pharmaceutical care”. Recruitment and prescription medications are important issues for improving rational use of medicines. According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), the status of rational use of medicines is assessed through the recipe by 10 criteria. The needs to study on rational drug use in hospitals of Ulaanbaatar and determining standard criteria for the proper use of drugs by recommendation of World Health Organization is the main justified issue of the study. @*METHODS@# In order to study the rational use of medicines, a single moment /descriptive/ research type was used. Recipes for 50 and 50 people who received prescription from pharmacy within 12 hospitals TFCHM, TSCHM, TTCHM, NCCD, NTaORC, NCMH, HCSKhD, HCChD, HCSBD, HCKhUD, HCBZD, HCBGD June 2017 in Ulaanbaatar, it was based on the WHO recommended methodology, a total of 600 clients, 600 recipes and 1249 medicines were selected and submitted to the conclusions. @*RESULTS@#The average number of medicines per minute was 2.08 ± 0.25, 45.2% in International Health Prescription were 42.6% antibiotics. According to a study on a contingency test, 85% did not have prescription signs, 38.8% without diagnostic prescription, 25% did not have physicians, and 48% did not have any medical information. The knowledge about the dose was 68.5% .@*CONCLUSION@#The results of the study were compared with the recommendations of the World Health Organization and the proportion of medicines included in the ICS list was lower than the recommendations of the World Health Organization list and the proportion of antibiotic drugs. The study found that 11 different incidents were encountered. Knowledge about medicines dose was 68.5%, compared to World Health Organization recommendations