DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2021.v09i04.016

Pages: 566-571

Objective: To find out the common diseases in which antibiotics are used among patients of outpatient department of Dhaka Medical College & Hospital. Method: This Observational Cross-sectional Descriptive study was conducted in in outpatient department of Medicine, Surgery, Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Dhaka medical college & Hospital. Later the study was compiled in the Department of Pharmacology, Dhaka Medical College. Total study period was one year extending from January, 2019 to December Patients in outpatient department of Medicine, Surgery, Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Dhaka Medical College & Hospital. Result: This study was carried out to determine the common antibiotics & diseases in which antibiotics are used among patient in outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital. A total 2404 prescriptions was screened in this study, among 600 prescriptions containing antibiotics purposively selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria from different outpatient of Medicine, Surgery and Gynaecology & Obstetrics department of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital to reach the end of the study. Conclusion: The disease burden of Bangladesh is moving from communicable to non-communicable diseases the major causes of morbidity and mortality in our country are infective diseases and therefore antibiotics are the most widely used group of medicine.