Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology

Bali is one of the world’s favorite travel destinations in developing countries. Most travelers who travel to developing countries seek medical assistance before, during and after travelling. Irrational prescribing is one of the causes of the higher medical cost. The objective was to evaluate drug prescriptions to foreign travelers in 2 travel clinics in Bali using the WHO prescribing indicators. This retrospective study used a cross-sectional method. Foreign travelers who took medication and received drug therapy at the travel clinics from January until December 2019 and had complete and legible medical record data were included in this study. Drug prescription were evaluated by following the WHO prescribing indicators, including the number of drugs per prescription sheet, the percentage of prescription drugs with generic names, the percentage of antibiotic prescriptions, the percentage of prescribed injections, and the percentage of drugs that were in accordance with the formulary. Drug use was said to berationalifall indicators were in accordance with WHO prescribing indicators where as it was said to be irrational if it did not meet the indicators set by WHO. We found a total number of prescriptions was 220 and the number of types of drugs in this study was 544. We found many poly pharmacy events, low prescriptions with generic names (14,2%), not all prescriptionsmetnationalformulary (64,8%), high prescriptions of antibiotic (50,0%) and injection (29,1%). Through this study, we concluded that there has been a phenomenon of irrational prescribing in those travel clinics.