Abstract

 
 
 
 Introduction: Infectious diseases are one of the most frequent reasons for hospital admission for children and antimicrobials are commonly used to treat them. There is higher prevalence of irrational prescriptions of antimicrobials in such population. This study was conducted to survey the pattern of antimicrobial prescription in Paediatric inpatient.
 Material and Methods: This was retrospective, descriptive, observational study. The data was collected from prescription records. The paediatric population included in the study was categorised into three age groups. A total of 87 prescriptions were studied and the information was recorded in performa. Data were recorded in MS Excel and Graph Pad Prism version 6 was used for analysis.
 Results: The number of male child was outnumbered by female child. The average age of the patient on antimicrobial prescription was 5.34 ± 2.18 years. The mean duration of hospital stay was 6.17 ± 2.01 days. The common indications for antimicrobial prescriptions were upper respiratory tract infections, diarrhoeal illness, urinary tract infections, enteric fever, etc. The antimicrobials prescription rate was 1.33. Oral route was found to be commonly used than parenteral route. The generic prescription rate was 33.6%. The most common drug prescribed was ceftriaxone followed by amoxicillin + clavulanic acid, ciprofloxacin, metronidazole and amikacin. The 62.5% of antimicrobials were prescribed from National Essential List of Medicines.
 Conclusion: This study highlights the prescription pattern of antimicrobial agents in hospitalised Paediatric population in a tertiary care hospital.
 
 
 
Highlights
Infectious diseases are one of the most frequent reasons for hospital admission for children and antimicrobials are commonly used to treat them
Only the prescription of patients aged from one month to 12 years including both genders who were admitted in Paediatric ward and prescribed one or more antimicrobials during their admission were included
The sex distribution in each groups have been shown in table 1
Summary
Infectious diseases are one of the most frequent reasons for hospital admission for children and antimicrobials are commonly used to treat them. This study was conducted to survey the pattern of antimicrobial prescription in Paediatric inpatient. The paediatric population included in the study was categorised into three age groups. A total of 87 prescriptions were studied and the information was recorded in performa. Conclusion: This study highlights the prescription pattern of antimicrobial agents in hospitalised Paediatric population in a tertiary care hospital. Infections are common in children and are responsible for a large number of hospital admissions.[1] Antimicrobials are frequently used to treat infections. A great number of antimicrobial prescriptions are unnecessary or inappropriate.[2] Antimicrobials are unnecessarily prescribed for viral infections such as common cold and
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