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Medication utilization pattern for management of pregnancy complications: a study in Western Nepal

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2016
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Title
Medication utilization pattern for management of pregnancy complications: a study in Western Nepal
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12884-016-1068-8
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Ramesh Devkota, G. M. Khan, Kadir Alam, Amisha Regmi, Binaya Sapkota

Abstract

Drugs used during pregnancy can adversely affect the health and life of the mother and unborn child. However, the fact that drugs are needed to mitigate complications during pregnancy cannot be avoided. The present study was designed to identify the common complications during pregnancy and assess the medications that have been used to mitigate those complications in an attempt to improve drug prescribing during pregnancy. A hospital based cross sectional study was conducted at Manipal Teaching Hospital, Nepal in 275 pregnant women presenting with at least one complication and the drugs prescribed for the management of those complications were analyzed. Majority of the patients in this study were in the age group 20-24 (44 %) and in the third trimester (53.8 %). Maximum patients complained pain (back, abdominal, lower abdominal, neck, pelvic) as primary complication (24.3 %) which was followed by nausea/vomiting, upper respiratory tract complications, acid reflux disease and others. Of the total prescriptions eighty six (86) did not have any medicines prescribed to the patients except multivitamins and nutritional supplements. The average drugs prescribed per patient was 2.78 in outpatient setting and 5.41 in in-patients. Ranitidine, hyoscine butylbromide, paracetamol were the most frequently prescribed medications. Antimicrobials comprised 12.8 % of total drugs prescribed and 18 % of total drugs were fixed dose combinations. Two hundred and thirty four (234) prescriptions out of 275 were prescribed by brand names. Most of the prescribed drugs were from FDA pregnancy category B and C. The present finding showed that pregnant patients were prescribed medications almost only when necessary and those considered safe during pregnancy were chosen to a large extent. However, few teratogenic drugs (2.49 % of total drugs prescribed) were also found to be prescribed which might need further assessments.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 131 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 17%
Student > Bachelor 22 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 10%
Researcher 12 9%
Other 6 5%
Other 14 11%
Unknown 42 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 40 31%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 12 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 7%
Social Sciences 6 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 12 9%
Unknown 49 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 September 2016.
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#20,342,896
of 22,889,074 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#3,809
of 4,211 outputs
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#277,924
of 320,232 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#90
of 99 outputs
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