Morbidity Profile And Drug Distribution Pattern At A Newly Established Tertiary Care Hospital

Disease variation is a common phenomenon, yet at single place there exists some pattern, knowledge of which is important, for planning new hospitals/health care establishments and/or running one of the already existing. The drug utilization pattern to manage the diseases is also equally important. The study aiming at finding out the pattern of disease & drug distribution was conducted with the above objectives on 2964 patients (males 1019, females 1945) attending general OPD of Sharda Hospital, Greater Noida during July 13 to October 31, 2006. The respective prevalence of systolic hypertension & diastolic hypertension was 9.4% & 12.8% in males and 12.1% & 15.6% in females. Under-nutrition was more common than over-nutrition in both sexes (in males under-nutrition 54.1%, over-nutrition 7.2% and in females under-nutrition 46.2%, over-nutrition 11%). Among males percent proportion of morbidity in the form of upper respiratory infection (URI), low backache (LBA), lower respiratory infection (LRI), acid peptic disease (APD), intestinal parasitosis (IP), bronchial asthma (BA), scabies, malaria and anaemia was 12.6, 9.1, 7.2, 7.0, 7.0, 6.9, 3.7, 2.6, and 0.4% respectively. In females similar figures were 7.6, 18.3, 3.7, 13.6, 4.4, 2.4, 2.2, 1.5 and 3.2 along with the 8.7% additional proportional morbidity in the form of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). Proportion wise drug distribution amongst males was analgesics & antipyretics (24.3%), antihistaminic (21.0%), antibiotics (14.8%), vitamins & minerals (12.8%), anti-parasites (7.0%) and antacids (5.8%). For females similar figures were 24.9%, 16.7%, 18.8%, 11.6%, 18.8%, 6.7% and 8.9% respectively. The category � �other drugs, � � the proportion use of which was 12.8% in males & 6.6% in females, included deriphyllin, scabizole, alprazolam, antihypertensives & chloroquine.