Background In India, it has been estimated that 50% of family spending on healthcare is on
unnecessary medications or investigations. This, combined with the wide availability of …

Scrub typhus is a mite borne infectious disease which has re-emerged in India in the 3rd
millennium after years of quiescence. In this review, the authors hypothesize the various …

India was the largest consumer of antibiotics in 2010 in the world. Evidence suggests that
countries with high per-capita antibiotic consumption have higher rates of antibiotic …

The key objective of this research was to generate new evidence on outpatient antibiotic
prescription rate and patterns in the private sector in India. We used 12-month period (May …

Background Due to the lack of clear, comprehensive, and rational drug policy, the
production of pharmaceutical preparations in India is distorted for the most part. Indian …

Purpose Irrational prescription of antibiotics is an ongoing global public health concern,
leading to antibiotic resistance. Understanding the prescribing pattern of antibiotics is …

Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 870 Undergraduate and Post-
graduate dental students of Udaipur city. A close ended, pretested questionnaire was …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely reported to be a rapidly escalating global health
threat. Investigations into the social dimensions of AMR have tended to focus on …

Objective To assess the impact of the National Essential Medicines Scheme (NEMS) with
respect to urban-rural inequalities regarding drug prescriptions in primary care facilities …

Background Prescription writing is a process which transfers the therapeutic message from
the prescriber to the patient through the pharmacist. Prescribing errors, drug duplication and …