Prescription monitoring & the pattern of prescribing drugs in pediatric patients done in a periodic study
Journal Title: International Journal of Allied Medical Sciences and Clinical Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Pediatric patients, defined as those younger than 18 years. Factors in pediatric patients, including the limitations of commercially available dosage formulations, the unexpected administering of medicines, the general inadequacy of clinical pharmacology training, the shortage of information about drug use in children all these add to the difficulties faced by the practitioner, hence one should prescribe judiciously, carefully select the safest dosage regimen available. Considering the above facts the present study was designed to monitor the prescription and its outcomes in pediatric patients. The study was conducted at pediatric departments in a government hospital at ibrahimpatnam, during the study period of 6 months and a total of 268 cases were collected, the data was collected and analyzed. In the study majority of the age groups included were in the age groups of 5-12 yrs (42.10%) ,1-5 yrs (26.10%),0-1 yr(16.20%) ,12-18 yrs (15.60%).The gender distribution in the study included 146 male patients (54.5%) and 122 female patients (45.5%).The disease prevalence in the following study concluded that the highest occurrence of the diseases in their ascending order showed: U RTI’s(46.60%), ACUTE FEBRILE ILLNESS(25.70%), followed by DIARRHOEA(5.90%). The standard treatment for upper RTI: Chlorpheniramine maleate + Paracetamol + Phenylephrine.
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Pradeep Kumar Ankishetti
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