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Evaluation of Drug Utilization Patterns during Initial Treatment in the Emergency Room: A Retroprospective Pharmacoepidemiological Study

Background. We assessed the prescribing trends, average number of drugs per prescription, and cost per prescription during the initial contact of the patient with the physician in emergency room. Methods. This retro-prospective study was conducted over a period of six months. Medical records of two...

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Autores principales: Cheekavolu, Chakrapani, Pathapati, Rama Mohan, Babasaheb Laxmansingh, Kudagi, Saginela, Satish Kumar, Makineedi, Veera Prasad, Siddalingappa, Kumar, Amitabh
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Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3253467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22242208
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/261585
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author Cheekavolu, Chakrapani
Pathapati, Rama Mohan
Babasaheb Laxmansingh, Kudagi
Saginela, Satish Kumar
Makineedi, Veera Prasad
Siddalingappa,
Kumar, Amitabh
author_facet Cheekavolu, Chakrapani
Pathapati, Rama Mohan
Babasaheb Laxmansingh, Kudagi
Saginela, Satish Kumar
Makineedi, Veera Prasad
Siddalingappa,
Kumar, Amitabh
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description Background. We assessed the prescribing trends, average number of drugs per prescription, and cost per prescription during the initial contact of the patient with the physician in emergency room. Methods. This retro-prospective study was conducted over a period of six months. Medical records of two hundred patients were reviewed for prescribing patterns. Results. 52 different types of drugs (996 drugs) were prescribed in total 200 prescriptions during the mean time spent in emergency room of 2.8 ± 1.4 hours. The average number of drugs per prescription was 4.2 ± 1.2. 95% of drugs were prescribed by trade name. Average drugs cost per prescription was 784 ± 134 rupees (17USD). Conclusion. Polypharmacy remains the main form of irrational prescribing. Prescribing patterns of drugs were knowledge based rather than WHO criteria for rational use of drugs.
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spelling pubmed-32534672012-01-12 Evaluation of Drug Utilization Patterns during Initial Treatment in the Emergency Room: A Retroprospective Pharmacoepidemiological Study Cheekavolu, Chakrapani Pathapati, Rama Mohan Babasaheb Laxmansingh, Kudagi Saginela, Satish Kumar Makineedi, Veera Prasad Siddalingappa, Kumar, Amitabh ISRN Pharmacol Research Article Background. We assessed the prescribing trends, average number of drugs per prescription, and cost per prescription during the initial contact of the patient with the physician in emergency room. Methods. This retro-prospective study was conducted over a period of six months. Medical records of two hundred patients were reviewed for prescribing patterns. Results. 52 different types of drugs (996 drugs) were prescribed in total 200 prescriptions during the mean time spent in emergency room of 2.8 ± 1.4 hours. The average number of drugs per prescription was 4.2 ± 1.2. 95% of drugs were prescribed by trade name. Average drugs cost per prescription was 784 ± 134 rupees (17USD). Conclusion. Polypharmacy remains the main form of irrational prescribing. Prescribing patterns of drugs were knowledge based rather than WHO criteria for rational use of drugs. International Scholarly Research Network 2011 2011-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3253467/ /pubmed/22242208 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/261585 Text en Copyright © 2011 Chakrapani Cheekavolu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cheekavolu, Chakrapani
Pathapati, Rama Mohan
Babasaheb Laxmansingh, Kudagi
Saginela, Satish Kumar
Makineedi, Veera Prasad
Siddalingappa,
Kumar, Amitabh
Evaluation of Drug Utilization Patterns during Initial Treatment in the Emergency Room: A Retroprospective Pharmacoepidemiological Study
title Evaluation of Drug Utilization Patterns during Initial Treatment in the Emergency Room: A Retroprospective Pharmacoepidemiological Study
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title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Drug Utilization Patterns during Initial Treatment in the Emergency Room: A Retroprospective Pharmacoepidemiological Study
title_short Evaluation of Drug Utilization Patterns during Initial Treatment in the Emergency Room: A Retroprospective Pharmacoepidemiological Study
title_sort evaluation of drug utilization patterns during initial treatment in the emergency room: a retroprospective pharmacoepidemiological study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3253467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22242208
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/261585
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