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Article | IMSEAR | ID: sea-226724

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Background: Medication errors are the leading cause of patient harm, injuries and even death in hospitalized patients. It endangers patient safety and also increases the cost of treatment leading to enhanced financial burden to the individuals and the community as well. The study was aimed to determine the pattern of occurrence of medication errors. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 188 hospitalized patients in medical ward at a Zonal Hospital. Medication errors were identified and categorized by reviewing the cardex. The data were analyzed to determine the cause of medication errors including rates of harm to patients. The descriptive statistics frequency and percentage were calculated using Microsoft Excel 2007. The findings were presented as tables and graphs. Results: A total of 985 medication errors were found in 650 (38.3%) drugs prescribed in 177 (94.1%) patients. Approximately 72.9% of the errors reached the patients and 32.39% of the errors were harmful. The most common observed errors were administration errors (41.6%) followed by prescribing errors (36.5%), transcription errors (14.3%) and monitoring errors (7.5%). Omission of prescribing information (63.88%) and wrong dosing schedule (34%) were the most common type of prescribing and transcription errors respectively. Omission of dosages administration (57.32%) to patients was the most common types of administration error. All types of medication errors were highest in the alimentary tract and metabolism class of drugs (32.39%). Conclusions: Medication errors were associated with the majority of hospitalized patients signifying the requirement of immediate preventive strategies and policies to ensure patient safety.

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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-168074

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Background: Venous disorders are very common. About 20% of the population suffer from varicose veins, 2% have skin changes which may precede venous ulceration1. Venous ulcers represent a common and debilitating condition associated with significant financial loss for the patients as well as the society. Treatment options for these patients are costly and time consuming. In this study we tried to find out cost -effective measures for treating this group of patients. Method: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of superficial and perforating leg venous surgery along with pharmacotherapy 66 patients with chronic venous leg ulcers are prospectively studied. After proper history taking and clinical examination all patients underwent venous duplex ultrasonography. Patients were divided into two groups. Group I (n=30) includes patients undergoing saphenofemoral ligation and stripping of the great saphenous vein (GSV). In group II (n=36) patients underwent saphenofemoral and incompetent leg perforator ligation along with stripping of the GSV. Conservative measures, local ulcer care and pharmacotherapy were common in both groups. Result: Postoperative complications, total hospital stay and ulcer healing were studied. Ulcer healing was earlier in group II. Remarkable complications were similar in both the groups. Conclusion: For effective and economic care of venous leg ulcers, combination of standard surgical procedures including incompetent perforator and saphenofemoral ligation with great saphenous vein stripping and standard physio-pharmacotherapeutic care is essential. This combined modality of treatment is highly effective in early and complete ulcer healing in patients suffering from venous ulcers.

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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-167194

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This cross-sectional study was conducted with the objective to assess the teacher's knowledge about ongoing quality assurance scheme (QAS) at different government and nongovernment medical & dental colleges in Bangladesh. Teachers of different categories were the respondents of this study. Self administered structured questionnaire was used to collect data adopting simple random sampling. The study was conducted in 2008 & 2009. The study revealed that both government and nongovernment medical colleges are conducting the QAS in their respective institutions. The academic coordinator play a vital role to run the QAS and for phase coordination. Students also participate as the representative member of the committee. Existing infrastructure of QAS is performing at its best effort but needs further development for upgradation of the services with an aim to improve the performance of the institutes. Principles of QAS are accountability, selfevaluation and external peer review. Major areas of QAS are organizational & operational frameworks. Organizational framework consists of both academic council and course committee. External examiners are appointed by university. External assessors are appointed by academic council but needs faculty approval. Operational framework consists of course appraisal, faculty development, review scheme, & external review. The study recommends that quality assurance scheme (QAS) should be thoroughly implemented and evaluated by the national quality assurance body. Both the organizational and operational frameworks should run along with faculty development and review scheme. Teachers should be more oriented to update their knowledge for better practices of QAS.

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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-46358

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OBJECTIVES: To analyze the prescriptions of out-patients for rational prescribing and dispensing and to evaluate the patient's knowledge regarding use of drugs, using INRUD indicators. METHODS: A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted at the Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal during the time period from June 10th to August 19th 2004. RESULTS: Totally 247 prescriptions were randomly selected for analysis, wherein 720 drugs were prescribed. Only 15% of drugs were prescribed by generic name, 21.67% of the total drugs consisted of fixed-dose combinations, only 40% of drugs were from the Essential drug list of Nepal and 29.44% (n=212) were from the WHO Essential drug list. It was found that more than half (54.17%) of the drugs were from Nepalese National Formulary and 35.69% were from WHO model formulary. Dermatological products were most commonly prescribed followed by drugs acting on central nervous system, antimicrobials and drugs acting on cardiovascular system. Among the drugs dispensed, 79.16% were oral followed by topical (18.19%) and parenteral forms (2.98%). Diagnosis was mentioned only in 3.23% (n=8) of the prescriptions and the average cost per prescription was found to be 241.11 Nepalese rupees (US$ 3.26). It was found out that pharmacist labelled only 0.4% of the medication envelopes with the name of the patient. However, 82.6% of the medication envelopes were labelled with name of the drug and 87.0% with drug strength. Only 53.8% (n=133) of the patient knew both the duration of the therapy and administration time of drugs. CONCLUSION: There is a need for educational intervention for prescribers and both managerial and educational intervention for the hospital pharmacists to improve prescribing and dispensing.


Sujet(s)
Adolescent , Adulte , Répartition par âge , Sujet âgé , Enfant , Études transversales , Ordonnances médicamenteuses/statistiques et données numériques , Femelle , Connaissances, attitudes et pratiques en santé , Services hospitaliers/statistiques et données numériques , Hôpitaux d'enseignement/statistiques et données numériques , Humains , Mâle , Adulte d'âge moyen , Népal , Éducation du patient comme sujet , Pharmacopées comme sujet , Pharmacie d'hôpital/statistiques et données numériques , Types de pratiques des médecins/statistiques et données numériques , Répartition par sexe , Jeune adulte
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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-45930

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Patient compliance is often not achieved during drug therapy. Many reasons including lack of patients' understanding regarding medication and disease, poor socioeconomic pattern, unavailability of drugs are attributed to this situation. Providing counseling to patients can improve their understanding regarding medication, disease and life style modifications which in turn improves compliance. Medication counseling centers are one of the means to counsel the patients. The study was conducted to analyze the performance of such a center at Manipal Teaching Hospital, a teaching hospital in Western Nepal. Patients were counseled as per the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act-1990 guidelines and data were collected from the documentation form of the center and analyzed. Results indicated that 84.5% of the patients were directed to the medication counseling center by the pharmacists. Nearly one quarter of the population was either asthmatic or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Bronchodilators were found to be the major therapeutic category of drugs and were found in 26.7% of the patients. Among the various counseling aids, placebo inhalers were used in 45.1% of the patients. The counseling pharmacists dedicated an average time period of 6-10 minutes in about 42.1% of the patients. Language was found to be the major barrier while counseling 16.5% of the patients. The study concluded that the medication counseling center can play a definite role in enhancing patients' understanding about medications and disease pattern, which in turn may improve patient compliance.


Sujet(s)
Adolescent , Adulte , Sujet âgé , Enfant , Services d'information sur les médicaments , Femelle , Hôpitaux d'enseignement , Humains , Mâle , Adulte d'âge moyen , Éducation du patient comme sujet/méthodes , Pharmaciens , Pharmacie d'hôpital , Autoadministration/méthodes , Facteurs sexuels
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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-1117

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Association of serum Interleukin -2 (IL-2) levels with the activity of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) was evaluated in this study. We studied 45 subjects in the Department of Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka. They were divided into three groups. Group A consisted of 15 CHB patients with raised Alanine aminotrasferase (ALT) (> 80 iu/L), Group B consisted of 15 CHB carrier with normal ALT (< or =40 iu/L) and Group C consisted of 15 healthy subjects with normal ALT. Serum IL-2 level was measured in all groups. IL-2 level was detected in 14(93.33%) subjects in group A and 2(13.33%) subjects in group B. IL-2 level was undetectable in all the subjects in group C. The association between IL-2 level and activity of chronic hepatitis B was observed by statistical analysis (Z-test). There is significant difference between group A and group B (p<0.001) and also in group A and group C (p<0.001), but no significant difference between group B and group C (p>0.05). Our results support the observation that IL-2 level can be used as a marker of activity in CHB patients as IL-2 level was significantly detected in the patients of group A.


Sujet(s)
Adolescent , Adulte , Alanine transaminase/sang , Femelle , Hépatite B chronique/sang , Humains , Interleukine-2/sang , Mâle
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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-1147

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The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of lamivudine treatment in both precore mutant and wild type of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients. The study was done on sixty CHB patients of both sexes seeking treatment in the Outpatient Department and admitted patients of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. The patients were divided into two groups. Group A included chronic hepatitis B patients with raised ALT (> 80 u/l ) with HBeAg positivity, and group B included precore mutant variety of CHB patients with raised ALT (> 80 u/l) with HBeAg negativity. In Group-A, after 1 year of completion of lamivudine therapy there was 86.67% normalization of ALT, 23.33% HBeAg loss, 16.67% anti-HBeAg development and 73.33% HBV DNA loss. In Group-B, there was 76.67% normalization of ALT and 73.33% HBV DNA loss after 1 year of completion of therapy. In the present study, it was observed that lamivudine is equally effective in both wild and precore mutant variety of CHB patients. This was reflected by normalization of ALT and loss of HBV DNA. This study also shows the reappearance of HBV DNA during the later half of Lamivudine therapy which is due to YMDD mutation.


Sujet(s)
Antiviraux/pharmacologie , Loi du khi-deux , Antigènes e du virus de l'hépatite virale B/analyse , Virus de l'hépatite B/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Hépatite B chronique/traitement médicamenteux , Humains , Lamivudine/pharmacologie , Études prospectives , Résultat thérapeutique
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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-1155

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Fifty adult patients of kala-azar were included in this prospective study from Medicine Unit-I of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. Splenic and bone marrow aspiration were done simultaneously to compare the sensitivity and other related merits and demerits of each procedure. Splenic aspiration appeared to be more sensitive procedure than bone marrow aspiration. Leishman - Donovan (LD) bodies were found in 90 percent and 72 percent of the spleen and bone marrow aspirates respectively. Splenic aspiration was found more acceptable to patients (96%) as it was less painful. Both the procedures were hazardless. There was no major complication except mild pain after splenic aspiration; even a few patients had history of epistaxis. Splenic aspiration was also more acceptable by the physicians because of an easy and reliable diagnostic procedure.


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Adolescent , Adulte , Animaux , Cytoponction , Moelle osseuse/parasitologie , Femelle , Humains , Leishmania donovani/isolement et purification , Leishmaniose viscérale/diagnostic , Mâle , Adulte d'âge moyen , Sensibilité et spécificité , Rate/parasitologie
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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-1119

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Thoracic actinomycosis represents about one-fourth of all cases of the disease. Isolated pleural effusion due to Actinomycosis is rare. We report a case of right sided pleural effusion with discharging sinus in the right anterior chest wall. Actinomycosis was suspected and confirmed by microscopic identification of "sulfur granules" in the discharge of the sinus tract and also identification of gram-positive filamentous bacteria in the specimen of discharging sinus. The patient improved clinically and radiologically after treatment with intravenous penicillin G followed by oral penicillin and aspiration of pleural fluid.


Sujet(s)
Actinomycose/complications , Adulte , Humains , Maladies pulmonaires/diagnostic , Mâle , Pénicillines/usage thérapeutique , Épanchement pleural/étiologie
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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-1209

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A total of eighty-one consecutive cases of Kala-azar admitted in all four medicine units of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital during the period from January 2002 to mid August 2002 were included in this study. The number of the patients clearly indicates that the burden of Kala-azar in this region is significant and expanding, which constituted 1.90% of total admission in all 4 medicine units during this period. Majority of the patients were of 20-29 years of age. Male to female ratio was 1.38:1. Maximum number of the patients were of poor socio-economic group with history of housing made up of mud and having close proximity with cattle house. Fever and splenomegaly (100%) were the predominant features. Hepatomegaly was found in 91.36% of the cases. Other clinical manifestations were weight loss (79.01%), normal or increased appetite (65.43%), generalized weakness (72.84%), pallor (69.13%), cough (25.92%), jaundice (17.28%), abdominal Pain (12.34%), hyperpigmentation (9.88%), ascites (4.94%) and bleeding manifestations (4.94%). Notable concomitant illnesses were urinary tract infection (7.40%), pulmonary tuberculosis (3.70%), malaria (1.23%), scabies (4.94%), heart failure (3.70%) and chronic liver disease (2.47%). Due to wide diversity of clinical presentations, clinical features of kala-azar should be evaluated in details which will pave the hidden cases into light.


Sujet(s)
Adulte , Répartition par âge , Bangladesh/épidémiologie , Femelle , Fièvre/étiologie , Hépatomégalie/étiologie , Humains , Leishmaniose viscérale/complications , Mâle , Répartition par sexe , Facteurs socioéconomiques , Splénomégalie/étiologie , Temps
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Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-1110

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Stroke is the commonest neurological cause of morbidity and mortality. Changes in risk factors may influence stroke incidence. Definitive diagnosis of the type of stroke is necessary for management and it has a strong impact on stroke outcome. A total of eighty-five consecutive stroke patients irrespective of age and sex admitted during the period of August 2000 to June 2001 were studied. They were asked about occupation, area of habitat, smoking habit, family history of ischaemic heart disease and/or stroke, any febrile illness, recent history of productive cough, dysuria and diarrhoea. They were searched for hypertension, diabetes mellitus, ischaemic heart disease, valvular heart disease and dislipidaemia. In every patient complete blood count, urine examination, fasting blood glucose and serum lipids, ECG, x-ray chest were performed. CT scan of brain was performed in 68 cases. Male was found 81.18% of cases with age 62.54 +/- 13.08 (m +/- SD) years. Female were 18.82% of cases with age 58.81 +/- 12.77 (m +/- SD). 75.29% of patients were belongs to middle class family. 51.76% of patients came from rural area and 48.24% of patients came from urban area. 78.82% of patients were hypertensive. Infection was associated with 37.65% of cases. Hemiplegia was commonest presentation (88.24%). Though altered consciousness was found more in haemorrhagic stroke (54.84%) but it was not significantly. High from ischaemic cases (p > 0.10) Male suffer more from stroke. Hypertension is the commonest risk factor. Infection is a common association of stroke. Altered consciousness is not a reliable guide to differentiate between ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke is hospitalized cases.


Sujet(s)
Sujet âgé , Femelle , Hospitalisation/statistiques et données numériques , Humains , Mâle , Adulte d'âge moyen , Facteurs de risque , Accident vasculaire cérébral/diagnostic
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Indian J Pathol Microbiol ; 2001 Apr; 44(2): 135-6
Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-72974

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We present here a rare case of Infantile Digital Fibromatosis in a six year old female child who presented with recurrent swelling over the phalanx of left middle finger.


Sujet(s)
Enfant , Femelle , Fibrome/diagnostic , Doigts , Humains , Récidive
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Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci ; 2000 Apr-Jun; 42(2): 123-4
Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-29283

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A case of chondrosarcoma rib which turned out to be a case of metastatic adenocarcinoma on histopathological examination is being presented.


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Adénocarcinome/diagnostic , Chondrosarcome/diagnostic , Tumeurs du côlon/diagnostic , Diagnostic différentiel , Issue fatale , Humains , Mâle , Adulte d'âge moyen , Côtes/anatomopathologie , Tumeurs du thorax/diagnostic
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Indian J Pathol Microbiol ; 1998 Oct; 41(4): 457-9
Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-75271

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A case of primary teratoma of the liver in a 10 months old male child is being reported for its rarity. It is the first case report in Indian literature.


Sujet(s)
Humains , Nourrisson , Tumeurs du foie/anatomopathologie , Mâle , Tératome/anatomopathologie
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J Indian Med Assoc ; 1992 Sep; 90(9): 233-5
Article de Anglais | IMSEAR | ID: sea-97923

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Twenty-four cases of primary lymphoma of the gastro-intestinal tract were diagnosed during the period 1970 to 1991. There was a preponderance of males and the male to female ratio being 1.4:1. Age ranged from 9-70 years, mean 32.2 years. Small intestine was involved in 50% cases, large bowel in 9 cases (37.5%) and stomach in 3 cases (12.5%). There were 5 cases (20.8%) of Hodgkin's disease and 19 cases (79.2%) were of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. All cases of gastric lymphoma complained of epigastric pain, weight loss and vomiting. In lymphoma of small intestine, 8 patients complained of pain associated with vomiting and 6 patients complained of distension of abdomen. In large bowel lymphoma, pain in right iliac fossa was complained by 4 patients and bleeding per rectum by 3 patients. Out of all the 24 cases, changes in bowel habit were noted in 15 patients and occult blood was positive in 13 cases. Palpable abdominal mass was noted in 14 patients. Histomorphologically, all the 3 cases in the stomach were of lymphocytic lymphoma diffuse type. Out of 19 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 15 were of lymphocytic lymphoma and 4 were of histiocytic lymphoma.


Sujet(s)
Adolescent , Adulte , Sujet âgé , Enfant , Femelle , Maladie de Hodgkin/anatomopathologie , Humains , Tumeurs de l'intestin/anatomopathologie , Intestin grêle/anatomopathologie , Lymphome malin non hodgkinien/anatomopathologie , Mâle , Adulte d'âge moyen , Estomac/anatomopathologie , Tumeurs de l'estomac/anatomopathologie
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