The inappropriate use of antibiotics is more important factor to be considered in developing countries because of freer marketing of antibiotics and higher frequency of specific infectious diseases. Despite this fact, there are not many studies dealing with the use of antibiotics. In this context, the present study was taken with the title ââ?¬Å?An audit of the use of Antibiotics in inpatient General Medicine Departmentââ?¬Â. In 105 medication charts 139 antibiotics were prescribed for different disease conditions on an average of 1.31 (Ã?± 0.46) per medication chart. 72 (68.57%) charts were prescribed with single antibiotic fallowed by two antibiotics 33 (31.42%), no medication chart contains three antibiotics. Only 4 (3.8%) prescriptions contains FDCââ?¬â?¢s., of which 2 (50 %) were amoxicillin + clavulonic acid. In this study, we observed the irrational changeover of antibiotics within the same day and next day of admission seen in 26 (24.76%) cases and within 3 days 40 (38.09%) were observed. We conclude that there is no proper medication order monitoring and auditing program in place to control/minimize the prescribing errors and this should be addressed immediately.
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