Drug prescribing is a skill that needs to be developed on a continuing basis. It reflects physician's skills and approach toward diagnosis of disease and selection of appropriate treatment.Antibacterial drugs are among the most commonly prescribed therapeutic agents. The aim of this study was to analyze the prescribing pattern in hospitalized pediatric population. A prospective, observational study was carried out in a pediatrics in-patient department at mehsana, Gujarat for 3 months. The relevant data on drug prescription of each patient was collected, recorded and converted into Microsoft excel sheet. The data was analyzed to determine WHO recommended indicators. A total of 262 patients, 173 (66.03%) males and 89 (33.96%) females were enrolled. A large number of patients were prescribed (64.5%) two antibiotics. A most prevalent indications for the use of ABDs were acute bronchitis (46%), fever-cough (32%), pneumonia (30%), convulsion (30%) diarrhoea (23%). All the ABDs were widely prescribed by brand name over generic name in the parenteral dosage form and cephalosporins (41.44%), aminoglycoside (32.75%), penicillin derivatives (17.81) were remained the prefer choice for pediatric patients. The prescribing from National List of Essential Medicine (NLEM-2011) was found to be (80.49%). The average cost of drug per prescription was INR 291.77, while cost spent on injection 65.44%. A wide spectrum of clinical disorder was noticed in the pediatric patients below 5 years. More number of ABDs were prescribed by parenteral route from NLEM list, showing good essentiality.
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