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Mahendrakumar BJ, Sowmya M, Uma Maheswari D, Hymavathi R, Ramesh S

pp. 1-5 · 2013

Formulary is a continually revised compilation of pharmaceuticals and some important ancillary information that reflects the current clinical judgement of medical staff. The main reason for developing hospital formulary …

Tarun W, Patil P.A, Suresh V P

pp. 6-12 · 2013

Adverse drug reaction (ADR) has been considered as a major threat to healthcare. Many studies continue to explore the incidence, causality and preventability of ADRs in different setup of healthcare so as to minimize or …

Asawari R, Atmaram P, Kushal G, Aeyna T

pp. 13-18 · 2013

The purpose of this study was to assess the appropriateness in glucocorticoid prescribing with respect to selection, dose, duration and route of therapy to prevent therapeutic failure or occurrence of glucocorticoid asso…

Rekha B, Saurabh B

pp. 19-24 · 2013

Background: Medication error is recognized as the eighth leading cause of death. Objective: The study was proposed to evaluate the prevalence and types of medication errors in IPD (In-patient department) at multispecialt…

Anila K N, Emmanuel J

pp. 31-35 · 2013

The study was conducted to find the magnitude of impact of a clinical pharmacist in improving knowledge of cardiology patients about oral anticoagulants. The interventional group received an additional care by the clinic…

Mahendrakumar B J, Soumya M, Jagadish B D, PraveenKumar M, Varun S C

pp. 36-40 · 2013

Tobacco use is one of the major risk factor for 6 out of 8 leading causes of death in the world.It has been estimated that there are 1.1 billion smokers worldwide and 182 million (16.6%) of them live in India. It has bee…

Vigneshwaran E, Padmanabha RY, Devanna N

pp. 41-46 · 2013

HIV/AIDS is a chronic disease and the patients are frequently prescribed with multiple long term therapy where it requires educating the patients regarding their disease and about the drugs for an effective management. P…

Vivek J, Priya R, Shubhi P, Shilpi R, Preeti S, Ashuthosh P, Yashumati R, Nishant P

pp. 47-58 · 2013

Introduction: The present study was design to investigate the level of job satisfaction and social identity among the pharmacist working in rural area of India.Method: Prepared questionnaire for pharmacist job satisfacti…

Arun A E, Kannan K, ShobhaRani RH, Sundaresh K N, Shekar H S, Ramjan S

pp. 59-68 · 2013

Objective: To do a pilot study to understand the study habits of the post-graduation (PG) pharmacy practice students in India and their perspective on the use of a Learning Management System (LMS) in line with the curren…

Manjusha S, Vandana N, Goutham R, Sneha M, Atmaram P.P

pp. 69-73 · 2013

Eclampsia is a common obstetric emergency associated with significant maternal and fatal morbidity and mortality rate. The aim is to evaluate incidence, management, perinatal & maternal morbidity/ mortality associated wi…

Sanket S.S, Anand I.S

pp. 74-79 · 2013

The objective of the study was to measure efficacy and safety of Rosuvastatin-10mg versus Atorvastatin-20mg in patients with Hypercholesterolemia. We conducted a single centre retrospective study, involving 117 hyperchol…

Vinay P, Krishna S N, Narayana G, Jaffar S, Dixon T

pp. 80-81 · 2013

This is a case report focusing on a 50 year old woman's death possibly due to Filgrastim. Filgrastim is considered to be a drug of choice in neutropenic cases. But in this case, Filgrastim has developed several severe ad…

Sajida S, Jaffar S M, Balaji K, Narayana G

pp. 82-83 · 2013

This is a case report focusing on a 62 years male patient who experienced complete loss of vision after the intra ocular administration of known strength of Bevacizumab. Bevacizumab is the choice of drug in the treatment…

Shobha Rani R Hiremath

pp. 84-87 · 2013

Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice (ijopp) is official journal of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI). Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice, a quarterly publication is devoted to publishing reviews and…

Shobha Rani R Hiremath

pp. i-i · 2013

Dear Readers, As we all know, the concept of health insurance is very strong in the western world and like other systems, health insurance also got migrated to India and became popular but there are many parts in India w…