[e-drug] Research in Rational Drug Use

["G.B. Simpson" <dicindia@yahoo.co.in>]

E-drug: Research in Rational Drug Use
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Dear e-druggers,

I am a research scholar and working on a research project
"Essential Drugs and Rational Use - A Study Among Inpatients in a
Tertiary Care Hospital, Hyderabad, India". I use the anatomical
therapeutic chemical classification system, with defined daily doses
per thousand patient days (ddds/1000pds). This method is
recommended by WHO and INRUD for drug utilization studies and
compares utilization patterns in primary, secondary and tertiary
care hospitals. Part of the research work is published in INRUD
News, April 2003 ("Analysis of drug utilization among patients in
Osmania general hospital, Hyderabad, India"), and in the WHO
Essential Drugs Monitor 32 2003 under the title "Indian hospital
drug use study shows need to improve prescribing" 
http://www.who.int/medicines/mon/32_13.pdf . 

I would be please with information from tertiary care hospitals in
other countries for the last 2 years (2001 & 2002), to compare it
with that of Osmania General Hospital. I look for the following data:

1)  Total utilization of drugs(DDDs/1000PDs)
2)  H02A - Corticosteroids-individual & group total
3)  A02 - Drugs for acid related disorders-individual drugs & group
     total
4)  Top 10 drugs

I hope to see this work duplicated in hospitals and programmes in
other countries.

With kind regards,

Dr G.B. Simpson
Research Scholar
Drug Information Center
322 Venkatagiri
Hyderabad-45 India
Tel: +91-40-235.46376
E-mail: dicindia@yahoo.co.in

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