WHO/INRUD prescribing indicators and prescribing trends of antibiotics in the Accident and Emergency Department of Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Pakistan.

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WHO/INRUD prescribing indicators and prescribing trends of antibiotics in the Accident and Emergency Department of Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Pakistan.

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A descriptive, retrospective and cross sectional study was conducted to assess the prescribing practices and antibiotic use patterns in the Accident and Emergency department of the Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur, Pakistan. A sample of 4320 prescriptions (systematic random sampling) was drawn out of a total of 1,080,000 prescriptions written during the period 1st January-31st December 2014. The standard World Health Organization/International Network for Rational Use of Drugs prescribin...

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2016-01

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Atif, Muhammad / Azeem, Muhammad / Sarwar, Muhammad Rehan / Shahid, Samia / Javaid, Sidra / Ikram, Huria / Baig, Uzma / Scahill, Shane

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/65263

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Antimicrobial resistance / Antimicrobial use / Irrational prescribing / Prescriptions / Rational / 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences / 3202 Clinical Sciences / Infectious Diseases / 6.1 Pharmaceuticals / 6 Evaluation of treatments and therapeutic interventions / 3 Good Health and Well Being

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