The Prescribing Pattern Of Antiulcerants Among The Specialist Doctor’s Of Different Areas Of Bangladesh

Abstract

The prescribing pattern of medicines among the doctors including specialist in Bangladesh is going to the class of irrationality due to the presence of lots of drugs with different brand name but generic names are same and also for the competition of the leading pharmaceutical campanies to gain the larger portion of market now a days. Promoting the rational use of medicines would definitely help mankind to fight the diseases and illness for better tomorrow. The objective of this study to see the prescribing pattern of antiulcerants among the specialist doctors’ of different areas of Bangladesh.By focusing and influencing the present situation of prescribing pattern of antiulcerants among specialty doctors the samples was collected randomly from different parts of Bangladesh likeDhaka,Chittagong,Comilla,Kustia etc.In our study 1600 prescription was randomly collected. Among them 1192 prescription out of 1600 contain antiulcerants and the percentage is 74.5%.The percentage of antiulcerant containing prescription in each specialty shows that medicine accommodate the highest area of 66.33% and then the pediatrics, gastroliver, dermatology, orthopedics, gyanecology, ENT as the number of medicine related prescription is high in this study.The drugs in the prescriptions included in the EDL (Essential drug list)are omeprazole and ranitidine.Among the 1192 number of prescription containgantiulcerants only 59.98% specialty doctors followed EDL drug list and 40.02% did not follow EDL.The percentage distribution of EDL among specialty doctors is higher in orthopedics (86.61%), then in medicine (75.22%), gastroliver (70.50%) and dermatology (67.02%).The percentage of antiulcerant prescribes among their own specialty shows that orthopeditians (90.55%) prescribes highest percentage for their frequent treatment procedures. The most prescribed generics are omeprazole (65%), esomeprazole (20%),ranitidine (7%) etc. The share of different companies in Bangladesh shows that the top ranked company like Square(23.07%),Eskayf (21.22%),Incepta(13.25%),Beximco (8.14%), Healthcare (7.80%), ACI (6.21%) etc. holds larger area in Bangladesh in antiulcerant marketing and other holds a very few percentage in total of 100%.These data gives us the idea about what type of medicines are frequently prescribed by the physicians and the present condition of medical business and whatshould be the directions for future generations to overcome it.