Study of drug prescribing patterns by specialists and general practitioners in tikrit city

ABSTRACT

An 800 prescriptions were collected from all pharmacies in Tikrit city to study the drug prescribing patterns by specialist and general practitioners. The study showed that antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs followed by tonics and cough preparations were the most fervently prescribed drugs. 294 pharmacodynamic interactions were recorded in this study. 270 were desired and 24 were undesired. 9 pharmacokinetic interactions were also recorded, only one of these interactions was desired. However, undesired interactions either pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamic were most common in the specialist prescriptions