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Retrospective Study To Evaluate Prescription Pattern And Cost Of Illness In Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis In A Tertiary Care Hospital Setting, Rajesh V Dr
Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal Theses and Dissertations
Background: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease associated with poor quality of life of patients, lifelong dependency on medications and long-term disease suffering which leads to both physical and financial disability in terms of cost. RA flare and complications lead to hospitalization and demand in-patient care and these costs impose a significant burden on the patients especially those from a poor socioeconomic background in a developing society like India where the country reserves only 1.4% of the income for healthcare. Objective: The objective of this study is to find the cost of illness associated with hospitalized patients suffering from …
Drug Utilization Review Of Anticancer Drugs With Otherdrugs In Breast Cancer Patients, Mahadev Rao Dr
Drug Utilization Review Of Anticancer Drugs With Otherdrugs In Breast Cancer Patients, Mahadev Rao Dr
Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal Theses and Dissertations
Background: To study the prescribing pattern of chemotherapeutic drugs in Breast Cancer patients and to survey the prevalence of exigent drug-drug interactions (DDIs) between chemotherapeutic drugs and non-chemotherapeutic drugs and evaluate the risk factors associated with these drug-drug interactions in India. Methods: All discharged patients’ data in the Department of Oncology were collected from September 2019 to March 2020 with the help of Hospital Information System and inpatient file of the breast cancer patients collected from the Medical Records Department. Drugs were screened for interactions by Micromedex solutions database and Epocrates database. Descriptive statistics were generated and was used to …