Current economical, social aspects of health technologies for preterm birth and real world data of drug prescriptions in Ukraine

Abstract

Improving the quality of life and health of pregnant women and their rational pharmacotherapy are the main objectives of WHO. Ukraine occupies 72 place in terms of motherhood in the world. We have analyzed and compared the national and international reports, guidelines on requirements for treatment and prevention of preterm birth. We analyzed the real world data of the frequency of drug prescriptions using ABC / VEN analysis based on medical records about drug prescriptions for pregnant women, diagnosed according to ICD-10 - O47.0. We found that the most common in A group were drugs for 7 INN (14.58 % of total allocations) and the essential drugs was only sodium chloride, which indicated that not enough rational use of funds of patients. We studied the evidence data about progesterone for effective treatment of PB. Therefore, that is important to optimize pharmaceutical care for pregnant women and rational use of medicines for effective pharmacotherapy of PB according to current health technologies.