TY - JOUR
T1 - Prescribing patterns in Dengue fever in paediatric patients in a tertiary care hospital
T2 - A retrospective cross sectional study
AU - Usha Rani, U.
AU - Kamath, Sangita G.
AU - Varun, H. V.
AU - Aithal, Sathisha
AU - Patil, Umakant N.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Dengue fever (DF) is the most common arboviral infection of mankind gaining global attention. Prescribing patterns in DF helps to evaluate the present trends of drug usage, drug expenditures, appropriateness of prescriptions and adherence to evidence-based recommendations. To study the prescribing patterns, approval status, inclusion in World Health Organization essential medicines list (WHO-EML) and National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM), cost of drugs prescribed in the treatment of paediatric DF. Data was collected from medical records of DF paediatric in-patients of SSIMS & RC Hospital, Davangere. The prescribing patterns, approval of drugs by Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), cost of drugs and listing in WHO-EML and NLEM were analysed. The drugs were classified into different groups based on WHO-ATC (Anatomical Taxonomical Chemical) classification. Descriptive statistics was applied using MS Excel 2010. The commonly used treatment modalities in 136 DF cases were antipyretics (100%), intravenous fluids (IVFs) (97.1%), antiulcer agents (94.1%) and anti-emetics (79.4%). Of 512 drug prescriptions majority (93.6%) were single drug formulations. 99.2% of drug prescriptions were approved by DCGI and 97.3% by FDA. >87% of drugs were enlisted in NLEM and WHO-EML. Only 6.3% drugs were prescribed by generic names. The most commonly prescribed ATC class of drugs belonged to A02B, N02B and A04A. The costliest drug prescribed was Inj. Piperacillin+Tazobactam. The results showed that utmost priority was given to symptomatic management of dengue fever with antipyretics, intravenous fluids, antiulcer agents and anti-emetics.
AB - Dengue fever (DF) is the most common arboviral infection of mankind gaining global attention. Prescribing patterns in DF helps to evaluate the present trends of drug usage, drug expenditures, appropriateness of prescriptions and adherence to evidence-based recommendations. To study the prescribing patterns, approval status, inclusion in World Health Organization essential medicines list (WHO-EML) and National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM), cost of drugs prescribed in the treatment of paediatric DF. Data was collected from medical records of DF paediatric in-patients of SSIMS & RC Hospital, Davangere. The prescribing patterns, approval of drugs by Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), cost of drugs and listing in WHO-EML and NLEM were analysed. The drugs were classified into different groups based on WHO-ATC (Anatomical Taxonomical Chemical) classification. Descriptive statistics was applied using MS Excel 2010. The commonly used treatment modalities in 136 DF cases were antipyretics (100%), intravenous fluids (IVFs) (97.1%), antiulcer agents (94.1%) and anti-emetics (79.4%). Of 512 drug prescriptions majority (93.6%) were single drug formulations. 99.2% of drug prescriptions were approved by DCGI and 97.3% by FDA. >87% of drugs were enlisted in NLEM and WHO-EML. Only 6.3% drugs were prescribed by generic names. The most commonly prescribed ATC class of drugs belonged to A02B, N02B and A04A. The costliest drug prescribed was Inj. Piperacillin+Tazobactam. The results showed that utmost priority was given to symptomatic management of dengue fever with antipyretics, intravenous fluids, antiulcer agents and anti-emetics.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84894073348
SN - 0976-044X
VL - 24
SP - 112
EP - 118
JO - International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research
JF - International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research
IS - 2
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