ReviewPerspectives in clinical research
A systematic review of prescription pattern monitoring studies and their effectiveness in promoting rational use of medicines.
Review in Perspectives in clinical research. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
37 citing papers in PubMed.
- Factors influencing antibiotic prescription for respiratory tract infections among prescribers in Jinja City, Uganda: a qualitative study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Teaching the true cost of medicines: white paper for a green and sustainable pharmacology curriculum.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Patterns of drug prescription among hospitalized patients in a tertiary women's hospital: A retrospective drug utilization study.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Observational
- The model for induced drug demand management in Iranian hospitals: a qualitative study.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Adherence to WHO/INRUD prescription indicators in public hospitals: evidence from the Ashanti Region, Ghana.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2025Article
- Analysis of the pattern of drug use using WHO core drug indicators among general OPD patients in rural Puducherry.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2024Article
- Future Healthcare Workers and Ecopharmacovigilance: Where Do We Stand?Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Assessing the Appropriateness of Antimicrobial Prescribing in the Community Setting: A Scoping Review.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Prescribing trends and rational drug use patterns in cardiovascular patients: A cross-sectional observational study.Bioinformation · 2024Article
- The effect of prescription patterns on the performance of the pharmacy department of a Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2024Article
- Use Pattern of Ophthalmic Antiglaucoma Agents with and without Preservatives: A Cross-Sectional Study.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Evaluation of rational prescribing in a hospital paediatric outpatient clinic in Nigeria.BMJ paediatrics open · 2022Observational
- Drugs utilization profile in England and Wales in the past 15 years: a secular trend analysis.BMC primary care · 2022Article
- 'He or she maybe doesn't know there is such a thing as a review': A qualitative investigation exploring barriers and facilitators to accessing medication reviews from the perspective of people from ethnic minority communities.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- A qualitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators affecting ethnic minority patient groups when accessing medicine review services: Perspectives of healthcare professionals.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- Antibiotic-prescribing pattern in the outpatient departments using the WHO prescribing indicators and AWaRe assessment tool in a tertiary-care hospital in South India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Assessment of WHO core drug use indicators at a tertiary care Institute of National importance in India.Bioinformation · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Drug Use Pattern in Pediatric Outpatient Clinics in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital Using WHO Drug-Prescribing Indicators.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2022Article
- Medication Prescribing Practices in Croatian Dental Offices and Their Contribution to National Consumption.International dental journal · 2021Article
- Compliance with the 4Ds of antimicrobial stewardship practice in a tertiary care centre.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Prescription pattern monitoring studies (PPMS) are a tool for assessing the prescribing, dispensing and distribution of medicines. The main aim of PPMS is to facilitate rational use of medicines (RUM). There is paucity of published data analysing the effectiveness of PPMS. The present review has been done to assess the effectiveness of prescription pattern monitoring studies in promoting RUM. Data search was conducted on internet. A multitude of PPMS done on different classes of drugs were collected and analyzed. PPMS using WHO prescribing indicators were also included. The present article reviews various prescription pattern monitoring studies of drugs conducted all over country and abroad. It was observed in the majority of such studies that physicians do not adhere to the guidelines made by regulatory agencies leading to irrational use of medicines. This in turn leads to increased incidence of treatment failure, antimicrobial resistance and economic burden on the patient and the community as a whole. The treatment of diseases by the use of essential drugs, prescribed by their generic names, has been emphasized by the WHO and the National Health Policy of India. We conclude that the prescription monitoring studies provide a bridge between areas like rational use of drugs, pharmacovigilance, evidence based medicine, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacogenetics and ecopharmacovigilance. In India, this is the need of the hour to utilise the data generated by so many prescription pattern monitoring studies done in every state and on every drug, so that the main aim of promoting rational use of drugs is fulfilled.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.