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Introduction: Irrational or inappropriate prescribing practice is common in developing countries that can lead to ineffective treatment, prolonged hospitalization, harm to the patient, increased treatment cost and development of drug-resistant organisms. The prescription of antibiotics and other drugs in endodontics is limited to patients with progressive and diffuse swelling and with systemic infection. However, antibiotics continue to be over-prescribed by more than 66% dentists without a rational justification.Therefore, the periodic assessment of drug utilization pattern is important to know the existing pattern of drug use, decrease adverse effects and provide feedback to the prescribers. Objective: To evaluate the drug utilization pattern in endodontics using the World Health Organization prescribing indicators. Methodology: A cross-sectional prospective study was conducted among the patients visiting the outpatient department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics. After obtaining the informed consent, the relevant data were collected on a self-designed proforma by reviewing the health cards of the patients. The WHO prescribing indicators were calculated. Descriptive statistics were calculated using SPSS version 11.0. Results: Out of 187 patients, 101 (54%) were female. Mean age was 38.9±16.6 years. Majority of the patients suffered from acute apical periodontitis (30.5%). A total of 281 drugs were prescribed to 187 patients. Paracetamol+Ibuprofen (44.1%) was the most frequently prescribed drugs. Most of the patients were prescribed one drug (78.6%). Average drug per prescription was 1.5. Majority of the drugs (89.0%) were prescribed from Essential drug list of Nepal. Conclusions: Analgesics were the most frequently prescribed drug. The prescription practice was rational. There is need to increase the number of medicine prescribed from National List of Essential medicines.Educational initiatives should be undertaken to further strengthen the rational prescription among dental practitioners.

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Drug utilization review of third generation cephalosporins in a tertiary care hospital

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research ◽

10.31838/ijpr/2020.sp1.117 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (sp1) ◽

Keyword(s):

Drug Utilization ◽

Tertiary Care Hospital ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Utilization Review ◽

Care Hospital ◽

Third Generation ◽

Drug Utilization Review ◽

Third Generation Cephalosporins

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Drug Utilization Studies – An Overview

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Nanotechnology ◽

10.37285/ijpsn.2010.3.1.2 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 803-810 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Shalini S ◽

Ravichandran V ◽

Saraswathi R ◽

BK Mohanty ◽

Dhanaraj S K

Keyword(s):

Drug Utilization ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Future Trends ◽

Medical Prescription ◽

Drug Usage ◽

Current State ◽

Patterns Of Use ◽

Drug Utilization Studies ◽

Drug Expenditures

Aspire of the Drug Utilization Studies (DUS) is to appraise factors related to the prescribing, dispensing, administering and taking of medication, and it’s associated. Since the middle of twentieth century, interest in DUS has been escalating, first for market-only purposes, then for appraising the quality of medical prescription and comparing patterns of use of specific drugs. The scope of DUS is to evaluate the current state and future trends of drug usage, to estimate roughly disease pervasiveness, drug expenditures, aptness of prescriptions and adherence to evidence-based recommendations. The increasing magnitude of DUS as a valuable investigation resource in pharmacoepidemiology has been bridging it with other health allied areas, such as public health, rational use of drug, evidence based drug use, pharmacovigilance, pharmacoeconomics, eco-pharmacovigilance and pharmacogenetics.

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Evaluation of Drug Utilization Pattern in Patient of Myocardial Infarction & Prevalence of the MI by Comparison of Age, Sex, Diet,Smokers & Non-smokers, Alcoholic & Nonalcoholic

American Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics ◽

10.21767/2393-8862.100030 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 02 (01) ◽

Author(s):

Patel Ramesh ◽

Jawaid Talha ◽

Shukla Kumar Parjanya ◽

Singh Pratap Mahendra

Keyword(s):

Myocardial Infarction ◽

Drug Utilization ◽

Utilization Pattern

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Review of Drug Utilization Studies in Neonatal Units: A Global Perspective

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17165669 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (16) ◽

pp. 5669 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Asma Al-Turkait ◽

Lisa Szatkowski ◽

Imti Choonara ◽

Shalini Ojha

Keyword(s):

Drug Use ◽

Drug Utilization ◽

Antibiotic Use ◽

Global Perspective ◽

Use Patterns ◽

Rational Prescribing ◽

Drug Use Patterns ◽

General Drug ◽

The Usa ◽

Drug Utilization Studies

Rational prescribing is challenging in neonatology. Drug utilization studies help identify and define the problem. We performed a review of the literature on drug use in neonatal units and describe global variations. We searched databases (EMBASE, CINAHL and Medline) from inception to July 2020, screened studies and extracted relevant data (two reviewers). The search revealed 573 studies of which 84 were included. India (n = 14) and the USA (n = 13) reported the most. Data collection was prospective (n = 56) and retrospective (n = 26), mostly (n = 52) from one center only. Sixty studies described general drug use in 34 to 450,386 infants (median (IQR) 190 (91–767)) over a median (IQR) of 6 (3–18) months. Of the participants, 20–87% were preterm. The mean number of drugs per infant (range 11.1 to 1.7, pooled mean (SD) 4 (2.4)) was high with some reporting very high burden (≥30 drugs per infant in 8 studies). This was not associated with the proportion of preterm infants included. Antibiotics were the most frequently used drug. Drug use patterns were generally uniform with some variation in antibiotic use and more use of phenobarbitone in Asia. This study provides a global perspective on drug utilization in neonates and highlights the need for better quality information to assess rational prescribing.

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