Prospective Analysis of Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reactions Encountered in a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Introduction: Adverse drug reactions (ADRs), including cutaneous adverse drug reactions (CADRs), are significant global health concerns with India among the top affected countries. CADRs represent a significant concern in healthcare, impacting the skin, its appendages and mucous membranes ranging from mild rashes to severe, life-threatening conditions like Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis. Self-medication with over-the-counter drugs is a notable public health issue linked to CADRs.

A drug utilisation pattern in non-dialysis patients of diabetic nephropathy in a government-run tertiary care hospital in South-Asia.

Objectives: The objective of the present study was to evaluate the Drug utilisation pattern in patients of diabetic nephropathy (stage 1-4) in a tertiary care hospital in South-Asia.

Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted in the nephrology out-patient-department of a tertiary care hospital in South-Asia. WHO core prescribing, dispensing, and patient care indicators were evaluated, and adverse drug reactions (ADRs) encountered by the patients were analysed for causality, severity, preventability, and outcome.

Past, present and future perspectives of therapeutic drug monitoring in India.

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is the clinical practice of performing drug assays and interpreting results to maintain constant therapeutic concentrations in patients' bloodstream. Conventional TDM was started way back in the 1960s and served to optimise pharmacotherapy by maximising therapeutic efficacy by evaluating efficacy failure and monitoring drug compliance, while minimising adverse events, in drugs with a narrow therapeutic range. Currently, the scope of TDM has been extended to additional indications which are of importance to India.

Awareness about rational use of medicines among fresh Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery graduates.

Context: Fresh Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery graduates (FMGs) are responsible for the majority of prescription errors and irrational use of medicines. Little research has explored their knowledge on rational prescribing practices.

Aims: The present study aimed to evaluate the awareness of rational use of medicines (RUMs) among the FMGs.

Evaluation of rationality of promotional drug literature using World Health Organization guidelines.

Objectives: The study was aimed to evaluate collected drug promotional brochures for accuracy, consistency, and validity of the information presented in it, using World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for ethical medicinal drug promotion. Drug promotional brochures were evaluated for the type of claims and pictorial content presented in it and for references cited in support of these claims.

Material And Methods: This observational, cross-sectional study was conducted in the outpatient department of Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur, India.

Comparison of safety, efficacy, and cost effectiveness of benzyl benzoate, permethrin, and ivermectin in patients of scabies.

Objective: To compare three treatment modalities in scabies for safety, efficacy, and economy in a local population of Nagpur.

Materials And Methods: This was a prospective, randomized, comparative clinical trial conducted in 103 participants, randomly allocated to three groups. First group received benzyl benzoate (BB) 25% lotion, second group received permethrin 5% cream, whereas third group received tablet ivermectin 200 mug/kg as a single dose.