Analysis of utilization pattern of antimicrobial agents in a tertiary care teaching hospital

Abstract

Bacteria are being unicellular and prokaryotes came to this earth before us and others. They are able to survive anywhere in this earth including soil, water both saline and normal, in all living creatures, hills, sands, ice of north and south poles, sea and desert. Some are helpful and commensals as they not harm us but many of them produce disease in which they survive, these are harmful bacteria, so called pathogenic or disease producing bacteria. Result showed there is a need for a better AMAs using formulary or clinical guide line, though it is available in CMDT, edited in every year. Role of Drugs and Therapeutic committee should play an important role regard to this, along with Drug utilization study, prescriptions auditing to improve drugs use in general and lifesaving managements. This is again a matter of great regret that the many doctors have a mental tendency  to use Newer  and more expansive, low available drug(a matter of ego that—DR writing and know much that drug only available at Cuttack) as opposed to cost effective, proven and well established AMAs, in local counters.