Periodic Supervision of Drug Prescribing and Rational Drug use Among Anemic Patients of a Developing Nation Using who Prescribing Indicators

Evaluation of Prescribing Pattern in Mirpur Azad Kashmir using who Prescribing Indicators

“…These results demonstrated that the prescribing behavior of physicians in private hospitals was more appropriate and rational as compared to that in the public hospitals (Asghar et al, 2017). A study conducted in Department of tertiary care hospital in Bangalore, India on prescribing among anemic patients exhibited that average count of medicines prescribed was 5.5 (Bhat, Koonisetty, & Saraswathy, 2018). In a study carried out in private and public healthcare facilities of Indonesia, average count of drugs per encounter was 3.06 and 3.31 in private and public healthcare facilities respectively (Yuniar, Susyanty, & Sari, 2017).…”

“…Chandelkar and his co-workers evaluated a sample of 1000 prescriptions in Goa, India and reported that almost all medicines prescribed were from essential medicines list (Chandelkar & Rataboli, 2014). On the other hand, 50% of medicines were discovered to be dictated from EDL in a study performed in Bangalore, India evaluating prescribing behavior among anemic patients (Bhat et al, 2018). Investigation of prescribing patterns in healthcare facilities of China revealed that 67.70% of medicines were advised from essential medicines list (Dong et al, 2011) while 73.7% drugs were reported to be mentioned from essential drug list in a survey conducted in primary healthcare centers in Brail (Ferreira et al, 2013).…”