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Title: | An audit of the use of ondansetron in general medical patients. |
Other Titles: | Letters: An audit of the use of ondansetron in general medical patients. |
Authors: | Cotton, Penelope J. Noaman, Samer |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Australasian Medical Publishing Company |
Place of publication: | Sydney |
Publication Title: | Medical Journal of Australia |
Volume: | 199 |
Issue: | 11 |
Start Page: | 748 |
End Page: | 749 |
Abstract: | A study of antiemetic prescribing to 514 eligible patients at Ballarat Base Hospital revealed that metoclopramide would have been a suitable and appropriate substitute for 104 doses of ondansetron administered to patients identified during the study. Of the 18% of eligible general medical patients only one patient had a documented indication that met the recommended guidelines for the use of ondansetron. Substituting these doses with metoclopramide would mean significant relative cost savings to the health service. The audit suggested ondansetron is being used to manage undifferentiated nausea and vomiting in general patients outside recommended guidelines. Practitioners were urged to consider the implications of their antimetic prescribing habits. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/579 |
Resource Link: | https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2013/199/11/audit-use-ondansetron-general-medical-patients |
ISSN: | 0025-729X |
Internal ID Number: | 00516 |
Health Subject: | ONDANSETRON ANTIEMETICS HEALTH SERVICE MISUSE PRESCRIBING |
Type: | Journal Article Letter |
Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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