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    Características de la prescripción de omeprazol y ranitidina, en hospitales públicos de Cuenca, en el año 2012
    (2013) Cajamarca Reiban, Jenny Carolina; Calderón Goerke, Mónica Patricia; Campoverde Polo, María Belén; Ojeda Orellana, Marco Ribelino; Dután Erráez, Holger Gonzalo
    Methods: Cross-sectional study of prevalence prescription-indication. The information was taken from the medical records, we use statistical measures for tabulation according to the age variables were mean and SD, for sex, diagnosis, type of use, treatment received, route of administration, reason to administered venous dose and frequency analyzed in frequency and percentages are represented through simple tables and double entry.- Results: Of the 2087 hospitalized patients (1138 women, 949 men), a total of 1480 used an inhibitor of gastric acid secretion, which corresponds to 70.92% prevalence of prescription. The mean age was 52.68 years. The 78.63% (1641) belong to HJCA and only 21.3% (446) to HVCM. Omeprazole was used at a frequency of once a day at 88.7% compared to 4.7% of the once daily administration of ranitidine. The most common drug administered during this period was the Ranitidine with 65.3% of patients The kind of use of these drugs in most cases was not justified, since the 66.48% of patients not met any of the indications or for prophylaxis or for treatment. In cases where it was used as prophylaxis, the main reason was to prevent stress ulcers by 61%. As treatment Omeprazole and Ranitidine alone was used in 35 patients, in patients with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding was used by 74%.AU