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Title :Drug prescribing pattern in upper respiratory tract infections among pediatric population attending outpatient clinics in pediatric hospitals
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Abstract
Aim: To study the current trend of a prescribing pattern of the drugs used in Upper Respiratory Tract Infections. Background: Antibiotics misuse/overuse is an important public health issue that affects the community and the individual. Using antibiotics to treat children from upper respiratory tract infections is evidently inappropriate unless the infection was proven to be bacterial. This misuse of antibiotics, especially in children, will increase the risk of developing bacterial resistance which emphasis on the need to discover the contributing factors to this overuse of antibiotics. Materials & Methods: The study was conducted on 200 patients through a cross sectional study. Non-probability convenient sampling method was conducted. The data was obtained using interview-based questionnaire. Results: The mean age of our study population was 4.02 ± 2.51 years old with mean weight of 17.43 ± 7.07 kg. The reported mean temperature was 38.32 ± 0.59o. Most of the prescriptions included in our study included antibiotics (116/ 58%). The most common prescribed antibiotic family was ampicillin sulbactam or Amoxicillin Clavulenic acid (53/ 26.5%). The most common route of antibiotics administration was oral route (74/ 37%), followed by Injection and combined oral and injection route in 21 patients (10.5%) for each group. Regarding TLC numbers, high TLC was reported in only 26 patients (17.9%). According to treatment compliance, regular treatment compliance was reported in 181 patients (90.5%)