Drug prescription pattern of outpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Tamil Nadu

Drug prescription pattern of outpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Tamil Nadu

Purpose: Drug use prescribing indicators advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO) are important tools for assessing the degree of polypharmacy, use of generic medicines, and to evaluate if there is inappropriate use of antibiotics or parenteral medications besides estimating the adherence to...

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Main Authors: S Shanmugapriya, T Saravanan, S Saranya Rajee, R Venkatrajan, Pinky Mariam Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
Series:Perspectives in Clinical Research
Subjects:
Generic drugs
polypharmacy
prescribing indicators
rational prescribing
Online Access:http://www.picronline.org/article.asp?issn=2229-3485;year=2018;volume=9;issue=3;spage=133;epage=138;aulast=Shanmugapriya

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