Assessment on the Pattern of Drug Information Queries in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Chennai
Abstract
The drug information services help to assist healthcare workers to address patient-specific drug-related needs and promote rational drug use. The objective of the study is to assess the pattern of drug information queries in a tertiary care hospital from the Physician, Nurses, Pharmacists, Students, and other healthcare professionals. In one year, the drug information queries have been received, documented and retrospectively analyzed for various parameters including the professional status of the requestor, mode of receipt and reply, type and purpose of query, and reference details. Out of 588 queries received, the majority were answered by Physicians (n=468; 79.59%), followed by Pharmacists (n=55; 9.35%), Nurses (n=15; 2.55%), also Technicians (n=9; 1.53%), Students (n=21; 3.58%), Patients (n=3; 0.5%) and other health care professionals (n=17; 2.90%). The secondary resources (Micromedex/Medscape) were used majorly, followed by Textbooks (n=117; 19.89%), Internet (n=103; 17.51%), Journals (n=23; 3.9%) and others (n=5; 0.85%). The most common drug-related query was Pharmacological drug profile (n=149; 25.34%) and including Product identification (n=132; 22.44%), Product Information (n=84; 14.28%), Adverse Drug Reactions (n=74; 12.58%), Therapeutic uses (n=55; 9.35%) and others (n=94; 15.98%). Drug Information Services has been developed to promote rational prescribing patterns among prescribers, reduce medication errors and provide better clinical outcomes.
Keywords: Drug Information Centre (DIC), Query, Drug Information Services, Patient care, Tertiary Care Hospital, Clinical Pharmacist.
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Drug Information Centre (DIC), Query, Drug Information Services, Patient care, Tertiary Care Hospital, Clinical PharmacistDOI
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