Objective: The objective is to shed light on the prescribing pattern of levetiracetam, a newer antiepileptic drug, in treatment different types epilepsy. Methods: A record-based cross-sectional study epilepsy patients who reported Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Unit Department Pharmacology, Regional Institute Medical Sciences, Manipur, was conducted. Case records receiving levetiracetam and report...

The most prevailing disease in most of the countries is gastric related problems for which majority of the population prefer acid suppressant agents. The commonest indication for which physicians prescribed acid suppressant drugs are gastro-esophageal reflux disease followed by Dyspepsia followed by peptic ulcer disease followed by with Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and with other drugs...

This study describes two surveys of psychotropic drug prescribing patterns for long stay patients in a teaching institute at an interval of 4 years. Polypharmacy was found to be at a low key, with minimal use of anticholinergics. The chief difference between the two surveys was in the significantly more use of once a day medication in 1988 compared to two divided doses in 1984. The importance o...

IAP Task Force on Management of Acute Diarrhea recommends 20mg of elemental zinc to be given to all children with acute diarrhea older then 6 months and 10 mg to all children aged 2 to 6 months for 14 days(1). We studied the pattern of prescriptions of zinc in acute diarrhea and its relationship to the antimicrobial prescribing patterns in a private tertiary care children's hospital. We carried...

Implementation of electronic prescribing system can overcome many problems of the paper prescribing system, and provide numerous opportunities of more effective and advantageous prescribing. Successful implementation of such a system requires complete and deep understanding of work content, human force, and workflow of paper prescribing. The current study was designed in order to model the curr...

Elderly have pathophysiological changes, higher incidence of chronic diseases, are at risk of polypharmacy and medication errors. Drug utilisation studies enable us to detect such problems and prioritize efforts to correct them. The current study was carried out with the objectives of delineating prescription pattern in elderly outpatients, determining the prescribing frequency of Potentially I...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease and responsible for the significant morbidity mortality. It critical to conduct drug use research of anti-diabetic medications in order encourage rational diabetes.
 Objective: The purpose this study was analyze pattern antidiabetic drugs, as well prevalence diabetes related risk factors throughout treatment period our sample group.
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There is a large excess in prescribing costs by GPs in Wales compared with England. This excess amounts to about 30%, equivalent at present to over pounds 11 m a year. The pattern of drug prescribing by GPs and of patient consultation was studied in random samples of electors in Cardiff and Bristol. Overall, more subjects in Cardiff had received prescriptions, and the average number of scripts...

BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance has emerged in recent years as a significant public health threat, which requires both an ethical and a scientific approach. In a recent Policy Delphi study, on-farm use of antimicrobials was a key concern identified by veterinary professionals in Ireland. In this case study (the second in a series of three resulting from a research workshop exploring the cha...

abstract background: in most countries, one of the main reasons for developing more advanced roles for nurses is to improve access to care in the context of limited number of doctors. it is considered that the introduction of major policy initiatives, such as nurse prescribing, requires high-level discussion and policy development to ensure successful implementation. this study aimed to identif...