Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2017
Drug Use Pattern in Children at tertiary care center OPD,Bhagalpur
Dr, Rajiv Kumar, Dr. Naresh
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This study aimed to evaluate drug utilization in pediatric out–patient department of a tertiary care teaching hospital. The patient and drug information of 254 patients was analyzed for WHO recommended prescribing indicators. The average number of drugs per prescription was 2.31 and 45% of medicines were prescribed from National List of Essential Medicines. The use of injectibles was low (1.18%) while an antibiotic was prescribed in 29.1%. Only 5.8% medicines were prescribed by generic name. Interventions are required to improve prescribing by generic name so as to further rationalize drug use in pediatric population.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijar
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DR,RAJIV KUMAR, DR. NARESH, Drug Use Pattern in Children at tertiary care center OPD,Bhagalpur, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾6 | June‾2017
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DR,RAJIV KUMAR, DR. NARESH, Drug Use Pattern in Children at tertiary care center OPD,Bhagalpur, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾6 | June‾2017
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