NINETY PERCENT DRUG UTILIZATION IN PATIENTS OF UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION

Abstract

DU studies include descriptive epidemiological approaches to the study of drug utilization, but also the assessment of how drug utilization rela tes to the effects of drug use, beneficial or adverse. 28 Therefore , present DU study was undertaken to analyze the prescribing patt erns in the URTI . This was an observation al , pros pective, cross sectional study. Total 200 subjects and their prescriptions were studied in which 100 subjects were from ENT department of civil hospital, Nashik , India and 100 were fr om private ENT hospital, Nashik, India. Drug Utilization Form was filled with the help of Prescribed Drugs and Interview of subjects. Study c ore indicators were studied. DU 90% was achieved with Amoxicillin, Azithromycin , Sulfamethoxazole + Trimethoprim and Cefixime which were th e most prescribed drugs with having percentage of prescribing 52.5 %, 22.5%, 7.5%, 6% respectively . The average number of drugs per prescription was 03. Present study showed that percentage of prescriptions with an antibiotic prescribed was 91.5%. Percentag e of drugs prescribed from essential drug list was 56.75%. Drug U tilization study in URTI showed for treatment of URTI antibiotics were used as first line of treatment but it should be get u sed as per guidelines and as per indication. Patient care indicato rs and Prescribing indicators should be given the importance. Overall, awareness among the physicians should be get increased by doing Drug U tilization studies among other diseases also to make health care society more responsible and patient caring.