title: Evaluation of drug prescription quality indicators in a primary health care facility with different models of health care.
abstract: to describe drug prescription indicators in a primary health care facility with different models of health care.
  
  
  
  this was a descriptive study using secondary data of prescriptions with regard to quality indicators in a health facility that has three health care models: Outpatient Medical Care (OMC), Primary Health Care Unit (PHU) and Family Health Strategy (FHS) in Vila Nova Jaguaré OMC/PHU in São Paulo-SP, Brazil, from July to October 2011.
  
  
  
  16,720 prescriptions were studied; the proportion of drugs provided through the Municipal List of Essential Drugs (Remume) was higher for FHS prescriptions (98.9%), compared to PHU (95.6%) and OMC (95.7%); similarly, both the use of the generic name of the drugs and the proportion of drugs provided was higher among ESF prescriptions (98.9% and 96.1%, respectively), compared with PHU (94.4 % and 92.9%) and OMC (94.0% and 92.7 %).
  
  
  
  all the prescription indicators show better results for FHS.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas, Diadema-SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Daniela Oliveira de
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Melo
authors.affiliation: Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde, São Paulo-SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Sílvia Regina Ansaldi da
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Campo Grande-MS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Lia Lusitana Cardozo de
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Castro
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards; D001938:Brazil; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000592:standards*; D018954:Drugs, Essential; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care
chemical_list: D018954:Drugs, Essential