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Polypharmacy on Diarrhoe and Infection Case (Polifarmasi pada Kasus Diare dan Infeksi)
A survey was conducted to study drug use in Kabupaten Gowa in 1991. The aim of this survey is to estimate polypharmacy in public health facilities. Sample of 936 drug use were taken from ten puskesmas in this kabupaten. By definition of polypharmacy as drug use more than 4 item for every consultation, it was found that in average, 21.6 percent of drug use there is considered as polypharmacy. There was diffrence in polypharmacy tendency among 10 puskesmas. Polypharmacy occured 4.14 times more frequent if anti-microbial agent was used. In addition, polypharmacy 7 times more frequent in diarrhoea cases.
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