Patterns of prescriptions and drug use in two tertiary hospitals in Delhi

Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-112

  Biswas, Nihar R ^a   Biswas, Rajat S ^a   Pal, Prem S ^a   Jain, Sunil K ^a   Malhotra, Satya P ^a   Gupta, Ashok ^a   Pal, Shanthi N ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Essential drug list; Prescribing pattern; Rational drug use

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ESSENTIAL DRUG; GENERIC DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG FORMULARY; DRUG UTILIZATION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HOSPITAL; INDIA; INJECTION; PRESCRIPTION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG UTILIZATION; DRUGS, GENERIC; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; INDIA; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 0033979620     PISSN: 00195499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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