Abstract
Background: - Pharmacotherapy is among the most powerful intervention to improve health outcomes and it is relatively safe, effective and inexpensive mode of treatment. Presently drug utilization studies are an evolving area. Their scope is to evaluate the present state and future trends of drug usage, to estimate crudely disease prevalence, drug expenditures, appropriateness of prescriptions and adherence to evidencebased recommendations. Aim: To evaluate factors related to the prescribing, dispensing, administering and taking of Medication at medicine OPD at tertiary care teaching hospital Materials And Methods:- Patients of all ages and both the sexes attending medicine O.P.D in two months duration and who gave inform consent were included in the study. Drug information of 538 patients was collected and then analysis was done by WHO recommended prescribing indicators. Results: - According to prescription of 538 patients, the average number of drugs per prescription was 2.73. Amongst which 54.16% of medicine was prescribed from national list of essential medicine. The average number of antibiotics per prescription was 37.40% and the use of injectables was 1.08%. The average number of drugs given by its generic name was 1.36%. The average duration of treatment was 9.23 days. Conclusion: - This study reveals that prescribing from NLEM was fair. The use of injections were low but drugs prescribed by its generic name needs to be increased.
Highlights
The WHO-India program on the rational use of Drugs, which has been going on for almost 20 years in India aims at promoting rational prescribing of drugs.[2]
Informed consent of all the patients was taken and they were asked for their prescriptions
The result of present study shows that average no. of drugs per prescription were 2.73
Summary
Drug utilization research was defined by WHO in 1977 as “the marketing, distribution, prescription, and use of drugs in a society, with special emphasis on the resulting medical, social and economic consequences”.1 The WHO-India program on the rational use of Drugs, which has been going on for almost 20 years in India aims at promoting rational prescribing of drugs.[2]. The WHO-India program on the rational use of Drugs, which has been going on for almost 20 years in India aims at promoting rational prescribing of drugs.[2] The assessment of drug utilization is important for clinical, educational and pharmacoeconomic purposes. Adoption of the essential medicine list for procurement and supply of medicines, especially in public sector healthcare system, has resulted in improved availability of medicines, cost saving and more rational use of drug.[5] For an effective utilization of the resources spent on drugs, it is essential that the prescribing and administration of drugs be evaluated from time to time, to quantify the error in such procedures, and look for possible solutions
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