Standard of dental prescriptions performed by future professionals

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https://doi.org/10.30979/rev.abeno.v20i1.1019

Keywords:

Prescriptions. Education, Dental. Students, Dental.

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the dentistry students’ knowledge regarding drug prescription. It is a cross-sectional and quantitative study performed with last-semester dentistry students in a public higher education institution. The students received a blank sheet with the word "Prescription" in the header to prescribe a drug as they deemed pertinent. The researchers developed an instrument to analyze these prescriptions. Then, the data were tabulated for later analysis of the variables. The results were showed in absolute and percentage frequencies. The Binomial Test for two proportions was used for verifying the students’ knowledge regarding the document subsections, at the significance level of 5%. It was noted that in 85.56% of the prescriptions filled by the students there was no postscript; in 64.44% no patient identification and in 67.78% the stamp was missing. It is concluded that a portion of the analyzed prescriptions was in non-compliance with some document’s necessary formal elements.

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Author Biographies

Cléa Adas Saliba Garbin, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Faculdade de Odontologia, Araçatuba.

Professora Titular do Departamento de Odontologia Infantil e Social

Julia Arruda Batista, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Faculdade de Odontologia, Araçatuba.

Mestranda do Programa de Pós-graduação em Odontologia Infantil e Social.

Artênio José Saliba Garbin, Universitário Auxilium (UniSalesiano Católico Centro Salesiano).

Graduando de Medicina

Artênio José Isper Garbin, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Faculdade de Odontologia, Araçatuba

Professor Associado do Programa de Pós-graduação em Odontologia Infantil e Social.

Tânia Adas Saliba, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Faculdade de Odontologia, Araçatuba.

Professora Associada do Programa de Pós-graduação em Odontologia Infantil e Social.

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22-05-2020

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Saliba Garbin, C. A., Batista, J. A., Saliba Garbin, A. J., Isper Garbin, A. J., & Saliba, T. A. (2020). Standard of dental prescriptions performed by future professionals. Revista Da ABENO, 20(1), 121–126. https://doi.org/10.30979/rev.abeno.v20i1.1019

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