Background: Prescribing patterns in COPD are often inconsistent with published guidelines. This was a prospective study with an aim to analyse and evaluate the trends and patterns of prescribing drugs among COPD patients using Gold criteria as base
Objectives: The study aims to assess the drugs prescribed in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using Gold guidelines.
Methodology: A prospective observational study was carried out involving in-patients of general medicine department of tertiary care teaching hospital for 6 months. The data of 80 patients were collected for the study in predefined forms from the medical case records and drug charts. The enrolled patients were observed from admission till discharge. Descriptive
statistics were applied to the collected data and analysed using MS EXCEL . Results:80 patients were evaluated of which most of the patients were males (72%) and females were (28%). Bronchodilators were mostly prescribed class of drugs (93.7%) followed by antibiotics (87.5%). 50% of patients were classified as having mMRC grade 3 dyspnoea
Conclusion: The present study concludes that symptomatic treatment. Many of the prescriptions were rational and in accordance with GOLD guidelines.
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
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