Assessments of Variations seen in intraocular pressure and its cost effectiveness of drugs used among patients diagnosed as Primary open angle glaucoma at tertiary care hospital

Suman, Rajesh Kumar; Ray, Ipsita; Deshmukh, Y. A.

doi:10.15373/2249555x/june2013/134

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“…Most common prescribed drugs in the present study were beta blocking agents, Miotics and antimicrobials. This findings are different from that of other studies [16,19] and corroborating with similar study. [20] The high use of antimicrobials can be justified by presence of co-existing infections or as preventive modality of treatment.…”

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A Drug Utilization Study in Glaucoma Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Central India

Mahajan¹,

Honrao²,

Borkar³

et al. 2015

J Cont Med A Dent

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Glaucoma is considered as a chronic progressive and usually symptomatic disease that destroys retinal cells and is one of the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide, including India according to World Health Organization (WHO) studies. Although dawn of newer topical agents have modernized the management of glaucoma, the cost of these drugs pose a major hindrance to successful treatment since it limits entrée and amenability. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To analyze current prescribing trends in anti-glaucoma drugs, to perform a drug utilization study using WHO parameters, to identify drugs per prescription, category wise identification of drugs prescribed. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study was a retrospective cross sectional, observational record based study carried out at NKPSIMS & RC, Nagpur, India. RESULTS: Out of total 405 records assessed, 275 were males (68%) and 130 were females (32%). Average number of drugs per prescription was 1.8 while the average cost of therapy per prescription came out to be 54.4 Rs.Amongst them most commonly used drug was timolol which was used in 80 patients followed by pilocarpine (68 patients) and brimonidine (35 patients). In males timolol was most commonly prescribed while in females timolol, pilocarpine and betaxolol shared a dominated use. Least prescribed drugs were topical atropine (2 patients), both overall and in males, while dexamethasone was used least in females (1 patient).CONCLUSION: Awareness regarding use of generics on a large scale should be done, keeping in mind only sole purpose-to increase the benefit of the patient, decrease cost of the treatment and decrease side effects without affecting efficacy.

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