Drug utilization study of patients with dermatophytosis attending dermatology outpatient department in tertiary care teaching hospital in Central India

Background: Dermatophytosis is a common fungal infection in India, with prevalence ranging from 36.6% to 78.4%. Treatment options include topical and systemic antifungal agents such as amphotericin B, clotrimazole, miconazole, luliconazole, itraconazole, terbinafine. With the availability of newer drugs, drug utilization study necessary understand prescription patterns promote rational use. Methods: This retrospective observational conducted among patients attending outpatient department dermatology Indira Gandhi Government Medical College Mayo Hospital. Prescription diagnosis tinea were collected using efficient digital database. These prescriptions then analysed depending on their demographic profile, treatment results evaluated help MS Excel presented percentage proportion. Results: Total 3701 had 1658 females 2043 males majority 16 30 years age. 81% medicine prescribed brand names containing maximum drugs followed by antihistaminic drugs. Most was terbinafine (29%), luliconazole (27.46%) itraconazole (17%). commonly cream (35.80%) lotion (26.26%). Conclusions: Drug utilisation pattern like this very important for studying varying dermatophytosis make first step towards uniform prescription.