Abstract

The Jayapura city is one of the endemic areas of malaria in the province of Papua. The use of antimalarial medicine in hospitals has adjusted to a pattern of successful therapy in previous years. The study aims to know the pattern of antimalarial use in malarial patients at the jayapura hospital installation in January - December 2020. The method of research used is a non-experimental study with a descriptive design from the retrospective data that sources the data of the treatment records of malaria patients. Studies show that the age of 17-25 became the most common age to develop malaria by 38 patients (38%). The male group became dominant compared with the female population of 60 (60%). Students are the primary target of malaria with 38 patients (38%). Tropical malaria is the most common of 62 patients (62%). Combination of primaquine + artesunate therapy reaches (66%). For precise indications and precise intervals of time entering into the precision of the treatment of malaria with accuracy (100%) while for right the medicine has a percentage (92%) and the right dosage has a percentage (99%) so it can be maximized in the future.

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