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Prescribing of veterinary and human preparations for animals in Norway. Was the preparation approved for the animal species for which it was prescribed?
Author(s) -
GRAVE K.,
BANGEN M.,
ENGELSTAD M.,
SØLI N. E.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.527
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1365-2885
pISSN - 0140-7783
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2885.1992.tb00985.x
Subject(s) - medical prescription , human medicine , veterinary medicine , medicine , veterinary drugs , animal species , pharmacy , companion animal , pharmacology , family medicine , traditional medicine , biology , zoology
The prescribing of drugs for case in veterinary medicine in Norway was investigated through a cross‐sectional survey. Of the 8741 prescriptions issued for animals included in this study 22% were for drug use in veterinarians' practices. Drugs from all but one therapeutic group were prescribed for use in animals. On average, 49% of the prescriptions were for vererinairy prepirations, 43% were for human preparations, and 8% were for formulations prepared by pharmacies. Of prescriptions for specific animal species, 27% of the preparations were not approved for the intended animal species. The corresponding figures for prescriptions of veterinary and human preparations were 7% and 41%, respectively. Of prescriptions for production animals 17% of the preparations were not approved for the intended animal species, and for pets this figure was 30%.