Assessment of prescribing pattern of drugs and completeness of prescriptions as per the World Health Organization prescribing indicators in various Indian tertiary care centers: A multicentric study by Rational Use of Medicines Centers-Indian Council of Medical Research network under National Virtual Centre Clinical Pharmacology activity

CONCLUSION: Most of the parameters in the present study were out of the range of WHO-recommended prescribing indicators. Therefore, effective intervention program, like training, for the promotion of rational drug use practice was recommended to improve the prescribing pattern of drugs and the quality of prescriptions all over the country.

Source: Indian Journal of Pharmacology - December 13, 2022 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: R Joshi B Medhi A Prakash S Chandy J Ranjalkar HR Bright J Basker L Govindraj PK Chugh CD Tripathi DK Badyal S Balakrishnan R Jhaj AK Shukla S Atal A Najmi A Banerjee S Kamat RK Tripathi YC Shetty U Parmar N Rege H Dikshit H Mishra SS Roy S Chatterjee A H Source Type: research