Patterns of Drug Utilization in Cardiology Department of a Tertiary Level Hospital in Bangladesh
| Autor: | Feroza Parveen, Rini Juliet Rozario, Jalal Uddin Iqbal, Ferdous Ara, Rekha Rani Saha, Farhana Afroj |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Drug Utilization
Drug medicine.medical_specialty Drug Prescribing business.industry Strategy and Management Mechanical Engineering media_common.quotation_subject Metals and Alloys Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Internal medicine Cardiology Medicine Tertiary level Medical prescription business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Bangladesh Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 28:1-4 |
| ISSN: | 2408-8439 1561-1566 |
| DOI: | 10.3329/bjpp.v28i1-2.20072 |
| Popis: | A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out among patients admitted in cardiology department from 1st January to 31st March 2011 in Sir Salimullah Medical College & Mitford Hospital, Dhaka to see the patterns of prescriptions and use of drug by using WHO core drug use indicators and some additional indices. A total of 300 patients were included in this study. The average number of drugs per encounter was 8.8 and 11.43% drugs were prescribed by generic name. Percentage of encounters with cardiovascular drugs were 64%,other drugs were 36% and 25% injection were prescribed.70.45% drugs were prescribed from EDL of Bangladesh, the availability of copy of essential drug list was present and availability of key drugs was 74%.So the results of the present study may contribute to identify essential drug prescribing patterns in our country. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjpp.v28i1-2.20072 Bangladesh J Physiol Pharmacol 2012; 28(1&2):1-4 |
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