Drug Utilization Study in Medical Emergency Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India

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</svg> (%)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Average number of drugs per prescription</td><td align="center">4.9</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Encounter with antibiotics</td><td align="center">610 (14.89)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Encounter with injectables</td><td align="center">3079 (75.17)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Drug prescribed from essential medicine list</td><td align="center">2660 (64.94)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Drug prescribed as generic</td><td align="center">1199 (29.27)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Analysis of prescriptions using WHO core prescribing indicators.

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Table 4: Drug Utilization Study in Medical Emergency Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India 