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 Dear INDICES members,
 
 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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