Development of A Hospital Formulary In A Tertiary Care Hospital
Journal Title: American Journal of PharmTech Research - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 0
Abstract
One of the important fundamental human rights is access to health care. Various governments have shown international agreements about this right. Disease management and prevention is mainly through drugs. Complete information about the drugs is given in World Health Organization (WHO) formularies. Aim of the study was to develop a hospital formulary in a tertiary care hospital. Drug list comprising of 450 drugs was collected from hospital pharmacy. After scrutinizing the list for unutilized and banned drugs, a total of 423 drugs were selected to prepare monographs for hospital formulary. The hospital formulary book was distributed to the doctors, nursing staff and pharmacy to avoid medication administrative errors and also to provide ease of reference. The formulary was also designed in a way to help the patients receive drugs economically by including the high quality drugs of affordable brands. Results showed that fixed dose combinations accounts for highest percentage of drugs in Varma hospital formulary i.e., 22.22% (n=94) whereas it is only 8.19% (n=28) in National formulary of India whereas blood products accounts least i.e., 1.89% (n=8) in Varma hospital formulary and 1.46% (n=5) in National formulary of India. Development of hospital formulary system helps in reducing the number of brands for the same drug, selecting the drugs at affordable cost with superior quality. On a whole, the formulary helps in providing quality treatment to the patient in a standardized way.
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Tirumala Konduru
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