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Authors:Â Muhammed
Inshar EK*, Muhammed Rashid K, Ashna M Baby, Ashana Shaji, Gnanambiga
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Affiliations:Â Department
of Pharmacy Practice, Padmavathi College of Pharmacy, Tamil Nadu-635205
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*Correspondence author:Â Muhammed
Inshar EK, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Padmavathi College of Pharmacy,
Tamil Nadu-635205, Email:Â insharek@gmail.com
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Citation:Â Muhammed
Inshar EK (2019) Assessment of Rational Drug Prescribing Pattern in Geriatric
Patients at Government District Head Quarters Hospital, Krishnagiri. Med
Healthcare Rep, 1(1);1-3.
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Copyright: Â©
2019, Muhammed Inshar EK, This is an open-access article distributed under
the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which
permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
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ABSTRACT
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Geriatric patients are increased to
15.2% in 1981 and about 18% in 2001. Age related physiological a pathological
changes that might affect handling of response to drug is essential in
pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics changes. The aim of the study is to
evaluate the irrational use of drugs for various diseases among geriatric
patients. The study data was conducted in the departments of general medicine,
ortho and ophthalmology outpatient unit. Institutional ethical clearance was
obtained before conducting study was conducted. Data were collected and
analyzed by student‘t’ test. The result of the study revealed percentage of
drugs prescribed as generics were 82.4%, 28% antibiotic and 22% of injections in
prescribed. 27.5% were obeying beers criteria, 36.21% were prescribed from
essential drug list and mean while 22.5% prescriptions having drug interaction
were f found. However our study concludes that suboptimal and inappropriate
prescribing practice and need for awareness tools for practitioners regarding
detecting drug therapy problems.
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KEYWORDS:Â Drugs,
Prescriptions, Polypharmacy, Geriatric, Antibiotic
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