Bibliographic citations
Rivera, M., (2022). Análisis del uso de medicamentos en niños menores de 2 años provenientes del distrito de Villa El Salvador desde el 2016 hasta el 2019 [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11629
Rivera, M., Análisis del uso de medicamentos en niños menores de 2 años provenientes del distrito de Villa El Salvador desde el 2016 hasta el 2019 []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11629
@misc{renati/910268,
title = "Análisis del uso de medicamentos en niños menores de 2 años provenientes del distrito de Villa El Salvador desde el 2016 hasta el 2019",
author = "Rivera Gómez, Marcela Jimena",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2022"
}
The control and surveillance of medication use are important because it allows the detection of medication-related problems and/or adverse reactions. There are reports of the misuse of medicines in the population, through cases of incorrect prescription and dispensing, self-medication, polypharmacy and incorrect use of antibiotics. Taking into account the contraindications of the drugs and the risks to the patient, the paediatric population is one of the most vulnerable. The present work has been carried out with the purpose of evaluating and documenting the early exposure of the paediatric population to medications; and thus generates preliminary information as a starting point for future studies on the causes or factors that lead to this exposure, in addition to establishing control and prevention strategies for the irrational use of the drug. To do this, data on drug use in children under two years of age was analysed from a cohort study in Villa El Salvador carried out between 2016 and 2019. The incidence of medication consumption by the study population, the incidence of polypharmacy and the cases with potential drug interaction were estimated, a descriptive analysis of the frequency of children who incurred in the consumption of medications with restriction of paediatric use and determined the factors associated with polypharmacy that included 5 or more medications. Data from 345 children under 24 months of age were analysed; where 189 drugs used by the study population were identified. The three drugs with the highest incidence of consumption were paracetamol (37 consumption events/100 children-month), simethicone (15 consumption events/100 children-month) and amoxicillin (15 consumption events/100 children-month). Eighteen drugs with use restriction were identified; among them: chlorphenamine (278 children) and cetirizine (198 children). The estimated incidence of polypharmacy that included 2 or more medications was 53 episodes per 100 child-months; while the incidence of polypharmacy with the potential for drug interaction was 2 episodes per 100 child months.
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