scholarly journals Assessment of Drug Utilisation Evaluation of Cephalosporins in A Tertiary Care Hospital

Author(s):  
Parvathy Rajan P ◽  
Priscilla Mary ◽  
Sheik Haja Sherief ◽  
Sivakumar T

Drug Use Analysis (DUR) or Drug Use Assessment (DUE) is known as an important quality management method for evaluating and improving substance use and patient care. It is an ongoing, systematic method to examine the pattern of drug administration in a number of clinical environments, with recommendations or defined criteria to facilitate the acceptable and efficient use of drugs. The DUE can be organized for evaluation and to improve the method of prescribing or dispensing the medication according to acceptable indications, dosage, drug reactions, therapeutic efficacy and cost-effectiveness. The aim of this study to evaluate the drug utilization pattern of cephalosporins. A retrospective study was performed for a period of 2 months among the hospitalized patients who received cephalosporins for different indications in which 100 patients were enrolled. Inappropriate use of drug therapy has been found in phase 1 (pre- intervention) and interventions have been conducted to rationalize the appropriate use of drugs in terms of indication, dose, dose length, individualized dosage modification, which has been strengthened in phase 2 by providing effective guidance on the application of DUE and interventions.

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Corny ◽  
Benoit Bailey ◽  
Denis Lebel ◽  
Jean-François Bussières

Author(s):  
C. Dinesh M. Naidu ◽  
Anand Vardhan ◽  
Mangesh Bankar ◽  
Sagar Sharma ◽  
Vinay Singh Raghuvanshi ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (87) ◽  
pp. 6047-6055
Author(s):  
Santosh Prasad Kesari ◽  
Sunil Kumar Pandey ◽  
Sridutt Shekhar ◽  
Surbhi Singhal

Author(s):  
Tarek Mostafa ◽  
Mona El-Tamalawy ◽  
Bassant Mahboub ◽  
Nagwan Farhoud ◽  
Mai Mousa ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Arvind V. Kumbhar ◽  
Nimish R. Halasawadekar ◽  
Sunita J. Ramanand ◽  
Jaiprakash B. Ramanand ◽  
Praveen T. Patil ◽  
...  

Background: Presently drug utilization studies (DUS) are in an evolving era. Current literature search has shown paucity of epidemiological studies in the field of paediatric pharmacology. Hence the present study was designed to assess the drug utilization pattern in neonatal intensive care unit to improvise the current prescription practices, if required and to determine areas in neonatal pharmacology in need of further research.Methods: A prospective, observational study spanned for a period of one year from January 2015 to December 2015 was conducted at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Government teaching tertiary care hospital, Maharashtra. Data of prescribed drugs was collected. WHO prescribing indicators were used for evaluating DUS. Assessment of exposure rates of different class of drugs in different gestational age groups was done. Data were analysed using descriptive studies.Results: Data of 205 neonates, showed male preponderance (53.17%) over female neonates (46.83%). With regard to the gestational age, 47.31% were term, 52.68% preterm. Average number of drugs per encounter was 6.69. 76.29% drugs were prescribed by generic name and 69.80 % drugs were from IAP list of essential medicines for children. Mean drug use was 6.23±3.34 per patient. Most common class of drug to which neonates were exposed was antibiotics (96.10%) and amikacin topped the list with exposure rate of 91.22%.Conclusions: The present study substantiates the need for implementation of institutional antibiotic policies, awareness regarding IAP list of essential drugs for children, prescription by generic name and rational drug use.


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