Prescription Audit and the Compliance of Medicines Prescribed in Pregnant Women.
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2012-01
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Proper use of medicines can be ensured in the society
through various ways. Scientific and rational prescription
is one of them, but at the same time judicious use of
medicines by the patients is also equally important.
Compliance of therapy can determine fate of any medicine.
This study was planned to explore some important aspects
of use of medicines in pregnant women in remote villages
of India. This was an observational, cross sectional study
using face to face interview of the pregnant ladies and also
auditing the prescriptions available from them. Present study
revealed that the average age of the study population was
23.6 years and primi-gravida (51.4%) constituted slight
majority over multi-gravida. Most commonly prescribed
medicine during pregnancy was iron, folic acid (79%) and
injection tetanus toxoid (91%). A large number of pregnant
women (37.5%) were non compliant with the medicine
prescribed for them. In modern therapeutics, drugs or
medicines play an important role in the health of any
individual. But at the same time its proper use should be
ensured. This study showed the importance of use of
medicines by the patient. Judicious use of scarce resources
on medicines not only improves the quality of therapy but
also the quality of life.
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medicine use, drug compliance, pregnant women, rural india
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Sumanta Anjan Adhikari, Biswas Chatterjee Sharmistha, Sengupta Mallica, Bhattacharya Kumkum, Gupta R K. Prescription Audit and the Compliance of Medicines Prescribed in Pregnant Women. Indian Medical Gazette. 2012 Jan ; 145 (1): 10-15.