Drug utilization study in paediatrics opd of a tertiary care hospital: Recommendation for implementation of rational use of drugs Sargwan Varsha1, Khattri Sanjay2 1Department of Pharmacology, Government Doon Medical College, Dehradun, India 2Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Online published on 6 September, 2019. Abstract A drug utilization study is a study designed to describe-quantitatively and qualitatively-the population of users of a given drug (or class of drugs) and/or the conditions of use. Studies on the process of drug utilization focus on factors related to prescribing, dispensing, administering and taking of medication and its associated events. Drug utilization play a significant role in helping the health-care system to understand, interpret and improve the prescribing administration and use of medications. To determine drug utilisation pattern in outpatient departments in paediatrics OPD of King George's Medical University, Lucknow. This was an open label, prospective, cross-sectional, observational study conducted in Outpatient Department (OPD) of paediatrics. The sample size was kept 400 in department in accordance with the World Health Organization manual Study. Data was expressed as mean ±SD, frequency, range and percentages. No statistical hypothesis was tested. After compiling the data, overall review shows average number of drugs as 2 and standard deviation with ± 1.1. Drugs by generic name as 1%.34% antibiotics prescribed and 22% drugs from essential drug list. According to the data, maximum number of drugs were two. Maximum percentage of drugs prescribed per prescription is two i.e., 49% and minimum is 1% with greater than four number of drugs in a prescription in paediatrics OPD. Data shows that antibiotic use is 23%. Among antimicrobials fluoroquinolones were maximumly prescribed with 58%. Majority of the drugs prescribed were of different brands and not generic names. Large number of drugs are not from essential list of medicine. Top Keywords Rational Drugs, Genericname, Cross Sectional Study. Top |