IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL STANDARD TREATMENT GUIDELINES LEADS TO SMALL IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESCRIBING PATTERNS IN SWAZILAND

• In: C6 - Short oral presentations – focus on practice on Thursday, 1 October 2015, 09:00-17:30
• At: Düsseldorf (Germany) (2015)
• Type: Presentation
• By: PADIDAR, Sara (Management Sciences for Health, Mbabane, Swaziland)
• Co-author(s): Sara Padidar
  
• Abstract:

  In 2012, Swaziland launched its first standard treatment guidelines (STGs) to improve care and treatment outcomes of common conditions. 

  Simple prospective cross-sectional survey of out-patient prescriptions assessing prescribing patterns using WHO/INRUD prescribing indicators was carried out at 33 health facilities prior to launching the STGs in

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