Assessment of Prescribing Trend of Drugs at Out Patient’s Chest Ward of Government Tertiary Care Hospital Situated in Karachi

Abstract

In this present study prescription patterns were assessed at outpatient chest departments in a tertiary care Government hospital. A prospective study was conducted at outpatient’s chest department of a tertiary care Government hospital in Karachi. The study was conducted from November 2013 to February 2014. The study sampled the prescriptions randomly. Inclusive criteria were based on those patients suffering from respiratory diseases were included in the study and treatment at outpatient chest department, whereas exclusive criteria were based on patients with other than respiratory diseases were not included in the study. Data was obtained from the prescription of the outpatients and these prescriptions were obtained from the pharmacy of the outpatient pharmacy. Data was analysed statistically by using SPSS version 20. In the present study total 241 patients were included in the study and their prescription containing at least one antibiotics were analysed. About 140 (58.09%) patients were females and 101(41.91%) were males. Out of 600 prescribed drugs, 169 were antibiotics in which mostly prescribed antibiotics group was 84(14% B-Lactam), 135(22.5%) bronchodilator, 89(14.8%) anti-allergy, 115(19.2%) analgesic and 48(8%) were antiulcerant. The drug utilization studies are important tool to sensitize and increases awareness among physicians, which ultimately improves rational prescribing and patient care.