ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERISTICS OF LEGIBILITY OF PRESCRIPTION FOR MEDICATIONS AND THE PHARMACOTHERAPEUTIC PROFILE OF HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS

Abstract

Introduction: There are circumstances in the process of prescribing medication, especially with the hypertensepatients, which could be avoided and reduce costs, for example: a better communication between thedoctors, because that would minimize polymedication. Objective: Analyze the characteristics of the legibilityof medication prescription and the pharmacotherapeutic profile of the hypertense patients. Method:This is a descriptive study with 422 recipes, which presented anti-hypertension medication being thrownaway by the City University of Sao Caetano do Sul (USCS) pharmacy between August of 2012 and Decemberof the same year. Verified by legibility, classifying the prescriptions as: readable, barely readable,and unreadable. The indicators of the recommended medication that were evaluated are the ones used by the World Health Organization. Observing the pharmacotherapeutic profile, the medications were classified by the AnatomicChemical and Therapeutic index. Results: it was observed that 37.9% of the prescriptions were unreadable because, whenreading the prescriptions, there was a high level of difficulty in reading and comprehension. There were 1,908 medicationsprescribed, 4.5% for each prescription. Of this total, 88% you can find generic dominance and 71.5% are standardized by theNational Medication Relations. 63% of the medication prescribed acts on the cardiovascular system, followed by the alimentarytract and metabolism (19.6%), blood and hematopoietic organs (4.9%) and medications that act on the nervous system(4.2%). Conclusion: The results in this study indicate prescriptions with polymedication and very little readability as maincharacteristics. As for the pharmacotherapeutic profile of the hypertensive prescriptions it was observed the importance, of thepresence of proton-pump inhibitor in medication, diabetes and the antithrombotics.