Prescribing Trends of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs used in Dental Outpatient Department of A Tertiary Hospital in Nepal
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The aim of the study was to monitor non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs prescribing pattern for patients attending the dental OPD of Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur, Nepal. 1173 prescriptions of patients attending the dental OPD were collected randomly during 15 July 2011 to 14 January 2012. Thedata was analyzed using WHO guidelines. The average number of drugs prescribed was 2.3 per prescription. The most commonly prescribed analgesic was ibuprofen + paracetamol (48.4%) followed by piroxicam (31%). In total, 49.6% analgesics were prescribed in fixed-dose combinations. Only 15.5% of analgesics were prescribed by generic name.In this study, Paracetamol + Ibuprofen were the most commonly prescribed analgesics among dental outpatients.
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