| Autor: |
Sujata Jadhav C, Khanwelkar, Thorat V M, Pritam M Sakhare, Sheshla Sadanandan |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences. 11:2340-2343 |
| ISSN: |
0975-7538 |
| DOI: |
10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl4.4466 |
| Popis: |
In the present study, we have recorded the percentage of prescribing prevalence for different respiratory drugs and antibiotics and DDDs/1000inhabitants/day for different antibiotics to recognize the drug utilization trends in respiratory tract infections. In the present study, among the upper respiratory infection cases, 89.60% of the patients received antibiotics and culture was done in only 4.62% of patients. Among the lower respiratory infection cases all the patients were prescribed antibiotic therapy, culture was done in 39.58% of patients, and 55.26% was sterile. Pneumonia was found more in the age group of 41 to 70 whereas Nonspecific URTI and Sinusitis in the age group of 17 to 30. The sex distribution of the patients showed that the female constituted of 59.38% of the patients and male constituted of 40.56% of the patients. The upper respiratory tract infection constituted of 69.47% of patients and lower respiratory tract infection constituted of 31.16% of patients. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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