Department of Pharmacology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2010 Apr;19(4):393-9. doi: 10.1002/pds.1832.
The purpose of this study was to generate data regarding the drug utilization pattern in pediatric population of our tertiary care hospital so that we could generate an essential medicine list (EML).
Drug therapy accounts for a major portion of expenditure toward health care. Reduction in health care cost for an individual can be achieved by lowering the cost of drug treatment.
This was an observational study conducted in the Advanced Pediatric Centre of our hospital, during which prescriptions and case records were reviewed.
During the study a total of 891 prescriptions were reviewed. Antibiotics and nutritional supplements were the major drugs prescribed. A large percentage of drugs were prescribed as trade names. Eighty three per cent of the drugs were prescribed from the National List Of Essential Medicine 2003 (India). Antibiotics accounted for the major bulk of cost of drugs, most of which were purchased by the patients.
Restricted use of newer antibiotics, branded drugs and prescribing from the EML could be considered as targets for reduction of cost of therapy.
本研究旨在生成有关我院三级护理医院儿科人群药物利用模式的数据,以便我们能够生成基本药物清单(EML)。
药物治疗占医疗保健支出的主要部分。通过降低药物治疗成本,可以为个人降低医疗保健成本。
这是在我院高级儿科中心进行的观察性研究,在此期间审查了处方和病例记录。
在研究过程中,共审查了 891 份处方。抗生素和营养补充剂是主要开的药物。大量药物以商品名开处方。83%的药物是从 2003 年印度国家基本药物清单开的。抗生素占药物费用的主要部分,其中大部分是由患者购买的。
限制使用新型抗生素、品牌药物和从 EML 开处方,可以考虑作为降低治疗成本的目标。