Study of Prescribing Pattern for Rational Drug Theraphy

The present study of prescribing pattern for evaluation of rational drug therapy was carried out in Jammu city for a period of six months. Two hundred prescriptions written by qualified medical graduate and postgraduate doctors were collected and studied for their correctness and rationality. The doctor's identity, patient's name, age and address, superscription, route of administration and administration of therapy were mentioned in 27%,100%, 27%, 5%,63%,20% and 66% of prescriptions respectively. Drug use has been found to be inappropriate in 33 % of the drugs and large number of prescriptions do not conform to the ideal pattern .