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Drugs Prescribing Pattern in A Tertiary Care Hospital in Central India - Madhya Pradesh in Years 2013- 14
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Irrational prescription of drugs is a common occurrence in clinical practice. The aim of the study is to assess the prescription pattern of drugs at the Outpatient Department of a tertiary care SGM Hospital, Central India, Madhya Pradesh. 3587 prescriptions were randomly collected from OPDs departments and were analysed according to the WHO/INRUD indicators. Results of this study show that the maximum patients - 43.57% attending OPD belonged to 33-42 age group, and maximum - 34.54% prescriptions were from the Department of Medicine. Nutritional supplements (25.83%), NSAIDs (25.43%), antibiotics (22.19%) and GIT drugs (18.75%) were the most commonly prescribed groups. Maximum (96.88%) drugs were prescribed by generic names. The average number of drugs per prescriptions was 3.11, most (36.71 %) of the prescriptions had 4 drugs, injectable drugs were used in 8.83% prescriptions, while fixed dose combinations were used in 33.43% prescriptions. Prescription rationality in this study is poor in terms of polypharmacy, and excessive use of nutritional supplements.
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Drugs, Prescriptions, Rational / Irrational, WHO, Polypharmacy
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