A prospective study of prescribing pattern of drugs among in-patients of gynaecology department in a tertiary care teaching hospital in South India

Kolasani, Bhanu Prakash; Sasidharan, Prasanand; Cm, Divyashanthi

doi:10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20162429

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“…Few of studies have been done in India to analyze the antibiotic usage in postoperative patients admitted in gynaecology department. 9 The current study was done in one of the teaching hospital of northern India. In our study, maximum number of patients were in age group of less than 30 years and were admitted as full term pregnancy with normal delivery and these patients were prescribed with oral antibiotic cefuroxime (17.3%) and amoxycillin clavulanate (6.59%) for 7 to 10 days and it is in concurrence with other studies.…”

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Prescribing pattern of antibiotics among postoperative patients admitted in gynaecology and obstetrics department of tertiary care hospital in Northern India

Sawhney

Khajuria

2020

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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Background: The objective of the study was to study the prescribing pattern of the antibiotics in postoperative patients admitted in gynaecology and obstetrics.Methods: Current prospective observational study was conducted in the department of pharmacology, Government Medical College, Kathua in collaboration with department of gynaecology and obstetrics for a period of six months duration from 1st May 2019 to 31st October 2019. The case sheets of all post operated patients above eighteen years of age admitted were studied and analyzed.Results: Total of 1807 case sheets were analyzed and showed that 4245 antibiotics were prescribed with an average of 2.3 antibiotics prescribed. Oral cefuroxime (17.3%) was maximally prescribed in patients who delivered normal presentation with episiotomy and injection ceftriaxone along with tinidazole and gentamycin were prescribed (58.4%) where caesarean section was done. While injection ceftriaxone and sulbactum along with tinidazole and gentamycin (17.09%) was prescribed in patients who were operated for gynaecological diseases. Maximum (80%) of the antibiotics were prescribed under brand name.Conclusions: Cephalosporin’s are commonly prescribed antibiotic and in eighty percent brand names were prescribed. Results underscore that antibiotic in generic name should be encouraged.

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Prescribing pattern of antibiotics among postoperative patients admitted in gynaecology and obstetrics department of tertiary care hospital in Northern India

Sawhney

Khajuria

2020

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“…Kolasani BP et al, reported that vaginal discharge due to reproductive tract infection is common while Sharma et al found PID as most common infectious disease. 13,14 Reproductive/Sexual tract infections (RTI/STI) are major cause of gynecological morbidity all over the world. NFHS-3 (National Family Health Survey), estimates that 11.1% of women were reported to have STI in India.…”

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A Study of drug utilization pattern in gynaecology out-patient department of a tertiary care hospital

Nandeshwar

Chakravorty

2019

Int J Res Med Sci

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Background: Gynaecological diseases are common in India because of socioeconomic, hygienic and literacy problems. Gynaecological drugs are one of the strong selling drugs in pharmaceutical market. Drug utilization research facilitate appropriate use of drugs in patient, minimize the adverse event and lead to better patient outcome. So, the present study was carried out to examine the patterns of drug prescription.Methods: A retrospective, observational study was done by collecting the prescriptions of the patients who attended the Gynaecology out-patient department in our institute for the period of six months. Total 300 prescription were collected and analysed. Patient’s demographic data, total number and category of drugs prescribed, percentage of individual drug and their dosage forms, drugs prescribed by generic name, brand names and percentage of drugs prescribed from essential drug list were analysed.Results: The mean age of presentation was 36.6±10.98 years. Among infective group breast abscess were common and among non-infective cases dysmenorrhea was most common. Out of 754 drugs prescribed, minerals were most commonly prescribed (42.70%) followed by antimicrobials (24.53%). Tablet form were prescribed more commonly (96.02%) followed by capsules (2%) and injections (1.06%). The average no. of drugs per prescription was 2.51±1.26 SD. Percentage of drugs prescribed by generic name were 98.01% and drugs prescribed from essential drug list were 85.41%.Conclusions: The overall drug use pattern in our study correlates with various gynaecological diseases. Majority of the women from rural background depend on primary health services for gynaecological diseases in their areas so, strengthening of gynaecological health care services reduce the morbidity among the women from rural areas.

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“…A medicinal professional prescribes the medications demonstrate his or her capacity to choose the quality of medication that is accessible in the market for that specific ailment and to decide the ones which will be most appropriate for their needs 2,3 . This requires a careful comprehension of different parts of both the infection and medications by the treating physicians lastly giving the patient protected 4 . At least 80 million antibiotic prescriptions each year are unnecessary, which makes improving antibiotic prescribing and use a national priority, according to the centers for disease control, explained the importance of the initiative in an era where antibiotic-resistant bacteria haunt an increasing number of hospitals.…”

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The main objective was to study the prescribing pattern of antibiotic in a tertiary care hospital to assess the frequency and prescribing the practice of antibiotics. The study includes an observational study of antibiotic prescribing patterns conducted over 6 months. In this study, enrolled 300 patients who were prescribed with antibiotics from both outpatient and inpatient department. Data were collected from the patient's chart and was subjected to analyze by performing descriptive statistics. In the present study, the prescription was assessed and found the maximum number of patients belonged to the age group of 21-30 years, and the proportion of male patients was more compared to the female patients. Moreover, younger and adult patients were commonly associated with the highest prescribed antibiotics in both male and female patients. Also observed that the frequency of antibiotics were 1, 2, and 3 or > 3 prescribed to 55%, 26%, and 19% respectively. Among the all group of antibiotics cephalosporins was found to be prescribed to the largest number (22.03%) of patients, followed by Quinolone (15.57%), Antifungals (14.36%), Aminoglycosides (11.59%), Penicillin (10.76%), Antiamoebic (8.29%), Macrolides (7.31%), Antimalarial (6.44%) and others were (3.65%) Among the antibiotics cefixime, ciprofloxacin, Itraconazole, Amoxicillin, Amikacin, and Azithromycin most chosen drugs % of antibiotic prescribed to male were much higher than female patient's especially penicillins, quinolones and cephalosporins group of antibiotics whereas antifungal and macrolides group of antibiotics higher in female patients than male patients.

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A prospective study of prescribing pattern of drugs among in-patients of gynaecology department in a tertiary care teaching hospital in South India

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Prescribing pattern of antibiotics among postoperative patients admitted in gynaecology and obstetrics department of tertiary care hospital in Northern India

Prescribing pattern of antibiotics among postoperative patients admitted in gynaecology and obstetrics department of tertiary care hospital in Northern India

A Study of drug utilization pattern in gynaecology out-patient department of a tertiary care hospital

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