Gambaran Farmakoterapi Pasien Common Cold Di Puskesmas Pekanbaru

Abstract

Common cold is still a disease with the most number of cases in Indonesia and the province of Riau in out patients
who visited the primary health center (Puskesmas). However, in primary health care, like Puskesmas and private
practice physicians are expected pharmacotherapy common cold is not rational. Medication errors is a common problem.
The purpose of this study was to determine how the use of pharmacotherapy in patients with the common cold in
Puskesmas Pekanbaru. This study was an observational descriptive , with a total sample 4602 people who meet the
specified criteria .The results showed that the percentage patients common cold using symptomatic analgesic-antipyretic
drugs 70.2%.However, the percentage of patients that using antibiotics in common cold is still quite a lot (36%), also
the use corticosteroid (17,9%) that showed medication error. The patterns pharmacotherapy of common cold in
Puskesmas Pekanbaru was relatively good, but need improvement .