DOI: 10.21276/sajp.2017.6.2.2

Pages: 47-52

To analyze the cost effectiveness of antipsychotic medication and prescribing pattern. The cost of different brands of antipsychotics was sorted by referring CIMS, MIMS, and patient profile form. Antipsychotic prescription pattern are fundamentally different across countries and regions due to variations in factors including health care policies availability and cost of drugs.Antipsychotics is a class of agents which are able to reduce psychiatric symptoms in a wide range of conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychotic depression, sensilepsychosis, various organic psychosis and drug induced psychosis. It’s a prospective observational study carried out in a psychiatric hospital Rajahmundry for a period of six months from Feb-July 2016. All the patients using antipsychotic drugs are 18-60years of age. The prescription was analysed by WHO indicators. Average number of antipsychotics prescribed are atypical include Olanzapine 5mg, 3mg, Aripiprazole 10mg, Quetapine 100mg, Clozapine 200mg. whereas typical include haloperidol 0.25mg, Trifluperidol and Trihexyphenidyl. The average cost of generic drug is provided to be no way superior to its economically cheaper counterpart. The drug to be prescribed in generic to save patients money and its compliance. Psychotic illness patients mainly advised monotherapy of antipsychotic drugs and if it should be in generic to save the patients money and to avoid extrapyridimal side effects.