Open AccessDifference in described indications of medicines among drug information sources in India: An issue urgently to be addressed
Author(s) -
Harmanjit Singh,
Prafull Mohan,
Ritesh Kumar,
Yogendra Kumar Gupta
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of natural science, biology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 2229-7707
pISSN - 0976-9668
DOI - 10.4103/0976-9668.175098
Subject(s) - formulary , drug , medicine , variation (astronomy) , pharmacology , astrophysics , physics
Drug information can be obtained from various sources such as National Formularies, drug package inserts (PI), other sources such as Monthly Index of Medical Specialities (MIMS), Current Index of Medical Specialities, and the information available with the regulators. Any variation in the information available in different sources can promote irrational drug use. In this study, we assessed this variation in a sample of commonly used drugs.