Open AccessUtilization study of antidiabetic agents in a teaching hospital of Sikkim and adherence to current standard treatment guidelines
Author(s) -
Sushrut Varun Satpathy,
Supratim Datta,
Binu Upreti
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/0975-7406.175975
Subject(s) - medicine , metformin , observational study , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes , combination therapy , drug , insulin , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , pharmacology , endocrinology
Diabetes has gradually emerged as one of the most serious public health problems in our country. This underlines the need for timely disease detection and decisive therapeutic intervention. This prospective cross-sectional observational study aims at analyzing the utilization pattern of antidiabetic agents in a remote North-East Indian tertiary care teaching hospital in the perspective of current standard treatment guidelines.