Prescribing Trend of Private Consultants at Hyderabad, Pakistan

To find out the drug prescribing trend by the consultant in a private hospital at Hyderabad, Pakistan, the purpose of study was to collect 400 prescriptions from the hospital’s pharmacy with in the time frame of 60 days. Among the total number, 36.75% of prescriptions were found with more than four drugs in a prescription. Information related with consultant and patient was consistently incomplete. The patient’s name, gender/sex, and age were absolutely absent in 33.75%, 46.25%, and 55.75% of Rx, respectively.