Evaluation of potential drug-drug interaction in indoor patients of pediatric department of tertiary care hospital

Pharmacological interactions among Paediatrics in Tertiary Care Hospital

“…and Ismail et al [14] . Male patients were found in majority in our study, which was similar to the results of several previous studies [1,6,10,14,17,18] . Most of the paediatric patients were found without chronic illness.…”

“…The trend of maximum number of patients found without any comorbidity was differing with the trend of a previous study conducted by Getachew et al [8] Majority of the patients were diagnosed with only one disease which was similar to the study conducted by Mistry et al [1] where all the patients had one morbidity per prescription. In the study, blood disorders were concluded to be the most common diagnosis which was contradicting from the conclusions of earlier studies conducted by Mistry et al [1] and Patel et al [18] A total of 338 drugs were prescribed among 56 paediatric patients out of which majority of the patients were prescribed with six drugs. This trend contradicted the results of earlier study conducted by Patel et al [18] .…”

“…In the study, blood disorders were concluded to be the most common diagnosis which was contradicting from the conclusions of earlier studies conducted by Mistry et al [1] and Patel et al [18] A total of 338 drugs were prescribed among 56 paediatric patients out of which majority of the patients were prescribed with six drugs. This trend contradicted the results of earlier study conducted by Patel et al [18] . Majority of the paediatric patients were prescribed with more than four drugs.…”

“…In the present study, the paediatric patients were divided into a range of age groups from birth to 18 y of neonates (from birth to 28 d), infants (1 mo-1 y), children (1-12) y and adolescent (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18) y where maximum number of paediatric patients were found in the age group of children (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) y. This trend was different from the results found in several previous studies [1,6,8,10,14,15] but in a study conducted by Ahmed et al [16] the results were found similar.…”

“…Paediatrics are defined as those younger than 19 y. Newborn infants born before 37 w of gestational age are termed premature; those from birth to 28 d of age are neonates; 1 mo-1 y are infants; those above (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) y are children and (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18) y are adolescents. These differences among various paediatric age groups have led to complex and error prone medication use process [1][2][3][4][5] .…”