1Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, U.P., India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, U.P., India
3Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, U.P., India
4Demonstrator, Department of Pharmacology, Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, U.P., India
Online published on 13 February, 2013.
To study the prescribing pattern in cataract surgery patients in SIMS, for evaluation of their pharmacoepidemiology.
A retrospective study was conducted in the department of Pharmacology in collaboration with the department of Ophthalmology for a period of one year.Total 720 patients were analysed. Utilisation pattern of drugs like dosages form, route, frequency of administration and duration of therapy in preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative were audited. Drug prescription versus therapeutic indication was also evaluated.
Different antibiotics mostly Fluoroquinolones, (like moxifloxacine (71.11%), gatifloxacine (16.66%), ofloxacin (4.16%) and,antiinflammatory drugs -bromofenac(54.27%),flurbiprofen(45.27%) and mydriatic-cucloplegic agents were prescribed.
The prescription was logical in respect of therapeutic indication.But in view of costMoxifloxacin and Bromofenac could have been replacedby cheaper antibiotics and antiinflammtory drugs as Ofloxacin and Flurbiprofen.
