Prescribing Trends in the outpatient Department in A Rural Hospital in Bangladesh

Knowledge of risk perceptions has demonstrated to be vitally important in understanding how individuals and societies manage the risks of daily life. In medicine perceptions of drug risks are probably to influence patients’ treatment decisions, their compliance with treatment regimens, their views on the acceptability of adverse reactions and the drugs that cause them, and their attitudes toward government regulation of medications. Understanding perceptions is a prerequisite for designing better communication materials for patients and the general population [1]. The drug use process can be separated into four fundamental components, namely: prescribing, dispensing, administration/ uptake and outcome (efficacy/safety) [2]. The evaluation of medication use is vital for clinical, educational and economic purposes [3]. Monitoring of prescriptions and drug utilization study could distinguish the related problems and give feed backs to the prescriber in order to make awareness for the rational use of drugs [4]. It is therefore necessary to define the prescribing pattern and target the irrational prescribing habit for sending a remedial message [5]. Therefore, the present study has been undertaken to observe the prescribing patterns of Antibiotics and the usage of these agents in different types of patients with different types of diseases in Faridpur City of Bangladesh.