DRUG UTILISATION STUDY IN INTENSIVE CARDIAC CARE UNIT AT A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Michell Gulabani; Patil B; Prashant Dass; Ashok Binjawadgi; Shivaraj Patil
- Source
- Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental sciences. 2:5239-5250
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Clinical pharmacology
Drug Prescribing
business.industry
Drug utilisation
Audit
Tertiary care hospital
law.invention
Unit (housing)
law
medicine
General hospital
Medical prescription
Intensive care medicine
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2278-4802
2278-4748
The prescription order is an important therapeutic transaction between the prescriber and the patient. It has been well accepted that inadequate and irrational prescriptions could lead to serious consequences. The present study was planned to identify the prevailing prescription trend in the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) of Basaveshwar Teaching and General Hospital (BTGH), Gulbarga, Karnataka. This study has made efforts to bridge the gap between clinical pharmacology, rational drug prescribing and analysis of the cost-benefit ratio. AIMS: 1. Hospital based study with an aim to carry out a complete ‘therapeutic audit’ and to see what