A Study Assessing Prescribing Quality Of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Primary Care Providers And Evaluation Of Its Impact Using Andersen’s Model And Propensity Score Method

Escalation of healthcare cost is a world-wide problem. Assessing and improving the quality of healthcare services should be a part of any agenda for healthcare reforms and cost containment. Drug prescribing is one of healthcare services that requires continuous assessment and improvement. However, a...

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Main Author:	Al-Dahbali, Abdullah Ahmed Hassan
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	RS1-441 Pharmacy and materia medica
Online Access:	http://eprints.usm.my/42035/1/Abdullah_Ahmed_Hassan_Al-Dahbali24.pdf
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spelling	my-usm-ep.420352019-04-12T05:26:50Z A Study Assessing Prescribing Quality Of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Primary Care Providers And Evaluation Of Its Impact Using Andersen’s Model And Propensity Score Method 2010-07 Al-Dahbali, Abdullah Ahmed Hassan RS1-441 Pharmacy and materia medica Escalation of healthcare cost is a world-wide problem. Assessing and improving the quality of healthcare services should be a part of any agenda for healthcare reforms and cost containment. Drug prescribing is one of healthcare services that requires continuous assessment and improvement. However, available tools for assessing prescribing appropriateness have many shortcomings including lack of predictive validity. This study evaluates the prescribing pattern of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s (USM’s) primary healthcare providers. USM offers primary healthcare services to its beneficiaries. The evaluation was performed at a macro level where the core prescribing indicators and the defined daily dose (DDD) methodologies adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) were calculated from an academic year data of service users. 2010-07 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/42035/ http://eprints.usm.my/42035/1/Abdullah_Ahmed_Hassan_Al-Dahbali24.pdf application/pdf en public phd doctoral Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Sains Farmasi
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description	Escalation of healthcare cost is a world-wide problem. Assessing and improving the quality of healthcare services should be a part of any agenda for healthcare reforms and cost containment. Drug prescribing is one of healthcare services that requires continuous assessment and improvement. However, available tools for assessing prescribing appropriateness have many shortcomings including lack of predictive validity. This study evaluates the prescribing pattern of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s (USM’s) primary healthcare providers. USM offers primary healthcare services to its beneficiaries. The evaluation was performed at a macro level where the core prescribing indicators and the defined daily dose (DDD) methodologies adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) were calculated from an academic year data of service users.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author	Al-Dahbali, Abdullah Ahmed Hassan
author_facet	Al-Dahbali, Abdullah Ahmed Hassan
author_sort	Al-Dahbali, Abdullah Ahmed Hassan
title	A Study Assessing Prescribing Quality Of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Primary Care Providers And Evaluation Of Its Impact Using Andersen’s Model And Propensity Score Method
title_short	A Study Assessing Prescribing Quality Of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Primary Care Providers And Evaluation Of Its Impact Using Andersen’s Model And Propensity Score Method
title_full	A Study Assessing Prescribing Quality Of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Primary Care Providers And Evaluation Of Its Impact Using Andersen’s Model And Propensity Score Method
title_fullStr	A Study Assessing Prescribing Quality Of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Primary Care Providers And Evaluation Of Its Impact Using Andersen’s Model And Propensity Score Method
title_full_unstemmed	A Study Assessing Prescribing Quality Of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Primary Care Providers And Evaluation Of Its Impact Using Andersen’s Model And Propensity Score Method
title_sort	study assessing prescribing quality of universiti sains malaysia’s primary care providers and evaluation of its impact using andersen’s model and propensity score method
granting_institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
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