Open AccessDrug prescription pattern of outpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Tamil Nadu
Author(s) -
S Shanmugapriya,
T. Saravanan,
S Saranya Rajee,
R Venkatrajan,
Pinky Mariam Thomas
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
perspectives in clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2229-5488
pISSN - 2229-3485
DOI - 10.4103/picr.picr_86_17
Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , polypharmacy , family medicine , essential drugs , drug , tertiary care , emergency medicine , pharmacology , health services , environmental health , population
Drug use prescribing indicators advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO) are important tools for assessing the degree of polypharmacy, use of generic medicines, and to evaluate if there is inappropriate use of antibiotics or parenteral medications besides estimating the adherence to the essential drugs list. This study aimed to assess the WHO prescribing indicators in prescriptions given at the medical outpatient department (OPD) in a private medical college hospital in South India.