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Prescribing trends in a teaching hospital in Nepal

2003; Nepal Medical Association; Volume: 42; Issue: 150 Linguagem: Inglês

10.31729/jnma.615

1815-672X

Ranjib Ghosh, J N Neogi, Bhavna Srivastava, Prithvi R. Sen,

Global Maternal and Child Health

Prescriptions of the patients at the time of admission to the college of Medical Sciences (CMS), Bharatpur,Nepal were collected for a period of 6 months to study the prescribing pattern in a teaching hospital. Theprescriptions were subjected to critical evaluation using WHO basic drug use indicators. The averagenumber of drugs per prescription was 4.34. Percentage of drugs prescribed by generic name and percentageof fixed drug combinations (FDCs) were 22.57 and 17.49 respectively. The percentage of prescriptionscontaining antimicrobials (72.05%) and injections(66.66%) were relatively more in our study. Percentageof drugs prescribed from the WHO essential drug list and the Nepal essential drug list were 41.76% and38.20% respectively. The most commonly used group of drugs were antimicrobials(32.27%) ,followed byanalgesics(11.85%) and drugs for acid-peptic-disorders(10.72%). The present drug utilization study is togive feedbacks to the prescribers, so as to create awareness about the rational use of drugs.