Year: 2025 | Month: November | Volume: 12 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 387-395
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20251141
Evaluation of Drug Management in the Pharmacy Department of Government General Hospitals in Medan City
Siti Nurhasanah Siregar1, Urip Harahap2, Khairunnisa Khairunnisa2
1Magister in Pharmaceutical Sciences Program, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, 20155, Indonesia
2Department of Pharmacology and Clinical/ Community Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, 20155, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Urip Harahap
ABSTRACT
Background: Drug management constitutes a critical component of hospital administration, ensuring the effective provision of medical services. This study was done to check how drugs are managed in the pharmacy department. Including the selection, planning, procurement, storage, distribution, and use of medications.
Method: This research used both quantitative and qualitative methods, selected through purposeful sampling. The data was collected using a sequential explanatory retrospective. The study took place in the pharmacy department of government general hospitals in Medan city in 2024: class A (Adam Malik hospital), class B (Dr. Pirngadi Medan hospital), and class C (Prof. Dr. Chairuddin P. Lubis hospital). Prescriptions were collected by randomly choosing 100 sheets each from outpatient and inpatient records. The tools used were observation forms.
Results: The study found that the drugs available matched national formulary standards by at least 76%. The number of times drugs were bought was low ≤12 times a year. Warehouse management system with a 100% match. The average number of medications per prescription for outpatients was compliant with standards, in outpatient, only class B prescriptions a percentage of generic drugs doesn’t meet standard. Antibiotic prescribing to the standard in classes A and C outpatients. For injection prescriptions outpatient services fulfilled the standard, but not inpatient. The processing speed non-compound prescriptions class C met the standard. Compound prescriptions, compliance was observed in classes B and C. Overall, drug availability was consistently 100%, with all medications correctly labeled. It can be concluded that drug management in the pharmacy department, adequately meets the standards in the areas of drug selection and distribution, however weaknesses remain in drug planning and use.
Keywords: Drug Management, Evaluation, Pharmacy Department, Indicators
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