Abstract:
The identification of drug therapy problems is the focus of the assessment and the last
decision made in that step of the patient care process. Although drug therapy problem
identification is technically part of the assessment process, it represents the truly unique
contribution made by pharmaceutical care practitioners. It is also a common scenario in
chronic non communicable diseases, like cardiovascular diseases. The objective of the
research is to characterize the prevalence of drug therapy problems among hospitalized
patients with cardiovascular diseases in Felege Hiwot Referral hospital. Hospital based
general cohort study design was used. All admitted patients with cardiovascular disease/s, in
Felege Hiwot Referral hospital were included. Pharmacists in collaboration with a nurse were
involved in collecting the data. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. Descriptive
analysis was used. The most common cardiovascular disease encountered were hypertensive
heart disease (26, 32.9%), rheumatic heart disease (24, 31.6%) and, functional heart failure
and cor pulmonalae (14, 18.4%). A total of 105 number of DTPs were identified with the
mean number of DTP was 1.38 + 0.8. Most of the patients had drug therapy problem, of
which indication related problems constituted the highest part.
