Drug Prescribing Pattern Observed during Pharmacotherapy of Antibiotics
in Medical Wards at Saidu Group of Teaching Hospital, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Abstract
ABSTRACT Objectives: The leading purpose of this investigation is to
measure the excellence of drug treatment by likeable in the assessment
of data on drug prescribing, dispensing, administering and use of drugs
by patient. Material & Methods: The study was planned to be a
retrospective, assessing the prescribing design concerned about the
utilization of anti-biotic in the management of various infections,
throughout a period of two months January 2017 to February 2017
(approximately 60 days). The study was conducted at tertiary care
hospital in which the prescriptions of 200 patients from the medical
wards, were evaluated, in which 57 (28.5%) were females and 143
(71.5%) were males. Results: Mostly prescribed antibiotic were
ceftriaxone 105 (34.09%), amoxicillin/clavulanic acid 18 (5.84%),
moxifloxacin 35 (11.36%), metronidazole 55 (17.85%), azithromycin 7
(2.27%), sulbactam/cefoperazone 22 (7.14%), doxycycline 13 (4.22%),
ciprofloxacin 40 (12.98%), cefotaxime 5 (1.62%), and clarithromycin 3
(0.97%). Total number of drugs prescribed were 1643 in which the
average number of drugs encountered per prescription were 8.21, the
percentage of encounters with antibiotics were 308 (18.74%), the
percentage of encounter with injections were 897 (54.59%), the
percentage of drugs prescribed by generic name were 205 (12.47%), and
the percentage of drugs prescribed from EDL were 1367 (83.20%).
Conclusion: On the bases of our study, the pattern used at Saidu Group
of Teaching Hospital for the, prescription of antibiotics, injections,
generic concept and drugs from EDL shows deviation from the standards
guidelines of WHO.