Core Prescribing Indicators and the Most Commonly Prescribed Medicines in a Tertiary Health Care Setting in a Developing Country

Table 3

Index of Rational Drug Prescribing (IRDP).

	Clinical Medicine	Gynaecology and Obstetrics	Paediatrics	Psychiatry	Surgery	All disciplines
Index of non-polypharmacy^∗
In-ward	0.21	0.39	0.55	0.27	0.24	0.30
Outpatient clinic	0.21	0.53	0.65	0.63	0.85	0.45
Both	0.21	0.46	0.61	0.39	0.38	0.35
Index of rational antibiotic use^†
In-ward	0.44	0.75	1.00	0.62	0.35	0.53
Outpatient clinic	1.00	1.00	1.00	—	1.00	1.00
Both	0.75	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.60	0.89
Index of safe injection use^‡
In-ward	0.26	0.46	0.36	0.68	0.26	0.32
Outpatient clinic	1.00	1.00	—	1.00	—	1.00
Both	0.43	0.90	0.84	1.00	0.51	0.62
Index of generic prescribing^#
In-ward	0.86	0.91	0.90	0.93	0.91	0.90
Outpatient clinic	0.92	0.96	0.76	0.99	0.95	0.91
Both	0.89	0.94	0.82	0.95	0.92	0.90
Index of EML prescribing^#
In-ward	0.92	0.95	0.87	0.74	0.97	0.92
Outpatient clinic	0.89	0.95	0.85	0.77	0.95	0.90
Both	0.90	0.95	0.86	0.73	0.96	0.91
Index of rational drug prescribing
In-ward	2.69	3.46	3.68	3.24	2.73	2.97
Outpatient clinic	4.02	4.44	2.26	3.39	3.75	4.26
Both	3.18	4.25	4.13	4.07	3.37	3.67

Optimal value taken as ^∗1.7, ^†23.4, ^‡18.75, and ^#100; EML, essential medicines list.