Evaluate the Prescription Pattern of Anti-Diabetic Patients Attending Medicine Out-Patient Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the prescription pattern of anti-diabetic patients attending medicine OP in a tertiary care hospital, to evaluate their adherence to treatments guidelines and to assess the rationality behind drug usage. It is a Retrospective Observational Study of 354 patients. The results were expressed in descriptive statistics. It was concluded that due to lack of patient compliance and ineffective control of blood sugar by monotherapy number of drugs used per patient is justified and polypharmacy noted is inevitable. Clinicians have to be educated and made intellectually aware of benefits of selecting more drugs from National List of Essential Medicines to rationalize drug therapy for cost efficiency and better patient compliance.