Title: Prescription Patterns of Antibiotics in Acute Medical Care Units of a Tertiary Care Hospital in India
Abstract: Patients admitted into the acute medical care units (AMC) in tertiary hospitals suffer severe diseases, exposed to multiple antibiotics before admission that keeps them vulnerable to multidrug-resistant pathogens. This study attempts to determine the group of antibiotics are prescribed for various conditions, average number and the cost of antibiotics per prescription. The patients admitted in acute medical care unit were explored for, the primary disease and the antibiotics classes were recorded. The cost of antibiotics in prescriptions was calculated from the pharmacy bills of the patients. We found a total of 177 antibiotics were prescribed for the studied 110 patients, with an average of 1.60 (± SD 0.77) antibiotics/prescription. The average cost of the antibiotics was INR 269.41±444.32 per prescription per pat cephalosporins were most commonly prescribed antibiotics. So we could conclude that the empirical treatment with antibiotics is common in acute care units. The antibiotics should be rationally prescribed to prevent emergence of resistance and to minimize the cost burden on the patient.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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