نتایج جستجو برای: prescribing pattern

تعداد نتایج: 367915  

Journal: :Quality & safety in health care 2003
C Watkins I Harvey P Carthy L Moore E Robinson R Brawn

BACKGROUND General practitioner (GP) prescribing accounts for about 10% of NHS expenditure. GPs at the top of the range have annual prescribing costs that are almost twice as much as those at the bottom of the range. This variation cannot be accounted for purely in terms of differences in underlying need for health care. OBJECTIVES To describe the relationship between GPs' prescribing costs a...

2016
Mandavi Kashyap Sanjay D’Cruz Atul Sachdev Pramil Tiwari

Objective: Published literature on the characteristics of prescribing medication to the Indian elderly is limited. This study aims to evaluate the prescription pattern among Indian elderly patients using WHO prescribing indicators. Methods: The prescriptions of 4005 outpatients aged sixty and above were evaluated prospectively using WHO prescribing indicators. Results: The average age of patien...

2012
V. Pavani Manasa Cidda Ramya Krishna Mihir Y. Parmar

Hypertension is a growing worldwide problem associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Statistics reveals that many patients with hypertension do not have their blood pressure under control. Poor control of this highly prevalent disease can lead to the development of Ischemic heart disease, Stroke, Chronic renal failure. Treatment pattern of hypertension provid...

2015
Joseph Fadare Oladele Olatunya Oludare Oluwayemi Olatunde Ogundare

BACKGROUND The audit of drug prescribing pattern in under-five children is essential in identifying the various types of non-rational prescribing such as polypharmacy and irrational use of antimicrobials. The primary objective of this study was to determine the drug prescribing pattern for children aged below five years attending the paediatric outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital in Ado-Ek...

2008
Sudha Vengurlekar Prerna Shukla P. Patidar R. Bafna S. Jain

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia, glycosuria, and sometimes ketonemia. The present study was carried out to assess prescribing practice and general trend of diabetes among patients at the Bombay Hospital, Indore. Prescriptions and complete records of diabetic patients were monitored and data was filed as per WHO prescription proforma. The study revealed t...

Journal: :Kathmandu University medical journal 2004
N Palikhe

INTRODUCTION Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in paediatrics. Because of an overall rise in health care costs, lack of uniformity in drug prescribing and the emergence of antibiotic resistance, monitoring and control of antibiotic use is of growing concern and strict antibiotic policies should be warranted. Before such policies can be implemented, detailed knowledge of a...

2009
Nazima Y. Mirza Sagun Desai Barna Ganguly

Children constitute about 40% of India’s population. Infants and children suffer from frequent but usually non-serious illnesses. Most of these are self-limiting (Straand et al., 1998) and are often treated not only inappropriately, but also resorting to polypharmacy (Ghai and Paul, 1988). Prescribers and the consumers are flooded with a vast array of pharmaceutical preparations with innumerabl...

2014
Admassu Assen

Drug use evaluation is a system of ongoing, systematic, criteria-based drug evaluation that ensures the appropriate use of drugs. The main objective of this study was to assess the drug prescribing patterns at Dessie Referral Hospital using some of the WHO core drug use indicators. Institutional based descriptive cross sectional study was conducted from April 28 to May 10, 2013 by reviewing 362...

Journal: :Kathmandu University medical journal 2008
S S Bhartiy M Shinde S Nandeshwar S C Tiwari

OBJECTIVES To find out the current status of the 'prescribing practices' in the Primary Health Care facilities of Madhya Pradesh. MATERIAL AND METHODS The cross-sectional survey was conducted in 26 Primary Health Care facilities of the Madhya Pradesh. Consecutive random sampling method was applied for collection of prescriptions from the health facilities. OBSERVATION Overall the average nu...

2009
Pichet Udomratn Sorayut Vasiknanonte

Objective: There has been a trend of prescribing new second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) as a first-line treatment for psychosis in many developed countries. However, there has been very few studies concerning this topic in a developing country such as Thailand. This study examined the pattern of prescribing antipsychotic drugs by Thai psychiatrists in a tertiary hospital. Methods: Active c...

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