Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence and Prescription Patterns at a Tertiary Level Hospital
Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence and Prescription Patterns at a Tertiary Level Hospital
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三级医院心血管疾病患病率及处方模式
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2017
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通讯作者:
Almonshatih Dirar Ali Leenah
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作者:
Almonshatih Dirar Ali Leenah
AIM AND OBJECTIVES: To study the prevalence and drug prescription pattern of cardiovascular disease
in a tertiary care hospital.
OBJECTIVES: To find out the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases. To study the demographic details of cardiac patients. To study category of drugs prescribed to cardiovascular diseases. To identify the most commonly prescribed drugs for cardiovascular diseases. To assess the prescribing habits of Cardiologists. To promote rational use of drugs. STUDY CRITERIA : Inclusion Criteria
Any patients visited the cardiology department during study period.
Patients with other co-morbid conditions.
Patients in 18 years and above.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients in other departments of the hospital.
Pregnant and lactating women.
Patients below 18 years.
Surgery patients.
STUDY PROTOCOL: Designing a data entry form with all details of patients, medication and
diagnostic methods.
Collecting the case histories of the patients from the medical records.
Analyzing the data’s and divides into various categories and concluding it.
Prescription analysis has to be performed by the help of medical records.CONCLUSION: The study concluded that most of the patients included in the study were
suffering from hypertension and coronary artery disease. These may be due to their
food habits, smoking, less exercise and poor health hygiene.
The prescribing pattern was rational and it follows the standard treatment
guidelines so, the treatment was effective because of recovery of normal life of
patient.
The maximum number of patients was male; it may be due to smoking and
alcoholic habits.
Analysis divulges that statins and anti-atherogenic agents are dominant
cardiovascular drugs when compared to others. Beta blockers, ACE inhibitors,
diuretics are predominant in anti-hypertensive group.
The study has some restrains which leads to say it cannot be a standard one
because it is carried out in one tertiary level hospital, may not accord with the data to
other generalized hospitals. Beside that the sample size does not reflect the actual
population and prescription pattern in the whole state or country.
Under use of calcium channel blockers and angiotensin receptor blockers
should be changed by undertaking educative interventions to change the prescribing
practice.