Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Drug utilization study is a tool to identify the issues regarding drug use and helps in contributing feedback to prescribers to create awareness about irrational drug use. It provide useful insights into current prescribing practices and can thus help to reform and update practices in clinical medicine and pharmacotherapy. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has become a major public health concern of today. Bronchodilators represent the mainstay of pharmacological management of COPD. Therefore the present study was planned to know the recent patterns of drug utilization in treatment of COPD with the objective to analyze the pattern of drug utilization in COPD. Under treatment was the problem with stage III and IV and use of long acting bronchodilators without ICS was responsible for it. The results of our study reveals that COPD treatment had little rate of adherence to GOLD recommendations which had result into either over treatment or under treatment of condition. Therefore, it is necessary to create efforts to make clinicians more adequate to aware the GOLD treatment guidelines of COPD.