Identifikasi Drug Related Problems (Drps) Pengobatan Tuberkulosis Pada Pasien Rawat Jalan Di RSUD Kardinah Kota Tegal Tahun 2009

Tuberculosis is a global health problem that needs to be overcome well and appropriately. The tuberculosis treatment needs more drugs of therapy so it causes Drug Related Problems (DRPs). The aim of this research was to explore the DRPs in the tuberculosis treatment covers wrong drug, over dosage, sub therapy dosage and drug interaction. This research was retrospectively and applicated to 170 patients of out patients in RSUD Kardinah Tegal during January-December 2009. Appropriate descriptive analysis was used. The results showed that unnecessary drug interaction 98,24%, the other DRPs were wrong drug (52,94%), sub therapy dosage (29,41%) and over dosage (1,76%). According to the results of this research can be concluded that there are many mistakes which will cause problem in tuberculosis treatment. Key words : tuberculosis, DRPs, wrong drug, over dosage, sub therapy dosage, drug interaction