PMID- 11092718
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20010906
LR  - 20181130
IS  - 1027-3719 (Print)
IS  - 1027-3719 (Linking)
VI  - 4
IP  - 11
DP  - 2000 Nov
TI  - Private pharmacies and tuberculosis control: a survey of case detection skills 
      and reported anti-tuberculosis drug dispensing in private pharmacies in Ho Chi 
      Minh City, Vietnam.
PG  - 1052-9
AB  - SETTING: Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. OBJECTIVES: To assess knowledge about 
      tuberculosis, to describe self-reported dispensing practices and to estimate the 
      magnitude of anti-tuberculosis drug dispensing in private pharmacies. DESIGN: 
      Survey of a random sample of 147 private pharmacies out of a total of 1814 
      registered pharmacies. Interviews were carried out based on a structured 
      questionnaire. RESULTS: Eighteen per cent of interviewees identified TB as a 
      possible diagnosis for a fictitious case with fever and cough for 4 weeks. 
      Fifty-eight per cent reported selling anti-tuberculosis drugs often or sometimes. 
      Interviewees estimated that 1.3 persons on average (95%CI 0.6-1.9) had bought 
      anti-tuberculosis drugs during the last 4-week period, and that 24% of them had 
      bought anti-tuberculosis drugs without a prescription. CONCLUSION: We have 
      estimated that between 1100 and 3400 persons buy anti-tuberculosis drugs each 
      month in the 1814 registered private pharmacies in HCMC, that about a quarter of 
      them do so without a prescription, and that at least 40% of all anti-tuberculosis 
      drug dispensing in HCMC occurs in the private sector. Regulations need to be put 
      in place urgently and collaboration strengthened between the strong National 
      Tuberculosis Programme and the unorganised private sector in HCMC.
FAU - Lonnroth, K
AU  - Lonnroth K
AD  - Department of Social Medicine, Goteborg University, Sweden. 
      knut.lonnroth@socmed.gu.se
FAU - Lambregts, K
AU  - Lambregts K
FAU - Nhien, D T
AU  - Nhien DT
FAU - Quy, H T
AU  - Quy HT
FAU - Diwan, V K
AU  - Diwan VK
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - France
TA  - Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
JT  - The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal 
      of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
JID - 9706389
RN  - 0 (Antitubercular Agents)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Antitubercular Agents/*therapeutic use
MH  - *Community Pharmacy Services/standards/statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Delivery of Health Care
MH  - Drug Prescriptions
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Observer Variation
MH  - Private Sector
MH  - Professional Competence
MH  - Tuberculosis/drug therapy/*prevention & control
MH  - Vietnam
EDAT- 2000/11/25 00:00
MHDA- 2001/09/08 10:01
CRDT- 2000/11/25 00:00
PHST- 2000/11/25 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/09/08 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2000/11/25 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2000 Nov;4(11):1052-9.