Abstract
The present study was conducted with the aim to evaluate the drug utilization pattern among geriatric patients of a tertiary care teaching hospital. A cross sectional study was conducted on elderly patients admitted in departments of Medicine and Surgery in a tertiary care teaching hospital. All the prescriptions were evaluated using WHO prescribing indicators. Total 200 prescriptions were collected during the study period. Most of the patients were in the age group of 65-69 years (68.5%) with male preponderance. Surgical conditions were the most common cause requiring hospitalization. Total 2045 drugs were prescribed to study participants with average number of drugs per prescription as 10.23 ± 3.14. Generic prescribing constituted 59.8% while antibiotics were prescribed in 15.5% of prescriptions. The total number of injections prescribed was 41.7% and drugs prescribed from WHO-EML constituted 41.5%. The present study highlights the signicance of drug utilization studies in geriatric
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