*Correspondence: drmoumitasardar@gmail.com; +91 8013553308 (Received: March 10, 2021; accepted: September 20, 2021) Citaton: Sharma M, Payal N, Devi LS, et al. Study on Prescripton Audit from a Rural Tertary Care Hospital in North India. J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2021;15(4):1931-1939. doi: 10.22207/JPAM.15.4.14 © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This artcle is distributed under the terms of the Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distributon, and reproducton in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creatve Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Sharma et al. | J Pure Appl Microbiol | 15(4):1931-1939 | December 2021 Artcle 6926 | htps://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.15.4.14 Print ISSN: 0973-7510; E-ISSN: 2581-690X ReseARCh ARtiCle OPeN ACCess www.microbiologyjournal.org 1931 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology Study on Prescripton Audit from a Rural Tertary Care Hospital in North India Mukesh Sharma 1 , Nikhil Payal 1 , Leimapokpam Sumitra Devi 1 , Divya Gautam 2 , Manisha Khandait 1 , Kapil Hazarika 3 and Moumita Sardar 1 * 1 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SGT University, Gurugram - 122 006, Haryana, India. 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leterkenny University Hospital, Leterkenny, Co. Donegal, F92 AE81, Ireland. 3 Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SGT University, Gurugram - 122 006, Haryana, India. Abstract Evidence concerning prescripton audits conducted in developing countries like India is scarce, especially from the rural parts of the country. Therefore, the present prescripton audit was undertaken in a rural tertary care hospital to investgate prescriptons for their completeness, in format of prescripton, legibility of writng and it was assessed against the World Health Organizaton (WHO) recommendaton of core indicators for prescripton writng in order to investgate the ratonal usage of drugs. A total of 200 prescriptons were randomly selected, irrespectve of clinical departments, patent characteristcs and diagnosis over a period of six months. All the prescriptons were prospectvely analyzed and conferred to an assessment of the quality of prescribing practce, general details, medical components, WHO core drug use indicators and legibility. Amongst the 200 prescriptons precisely monitored, we found that 100% prescriptons had general details of the patents such as name, age, gender, OPD/IPD registraton number, hospital name & address and consultng unit/department. While evaluatng the handwritng of the doctors, 83.5% (177/200) of the prescriptons had legible handwritng, wherein the degree of legibility showed 68.5% (137/200) prescriptons with easy legibility, 20% (40/200) difcult legibility while 11.5% (23/200) were illegible. Along with the diferent types of drugs obtained from the selected prescriptons, we found that antbiotcs were prescribed in 51.5% (103/200) of the prescriptons. A prescripton audit is a good tool to systemically review the day to day work, maintenance of records and assessment of accuracy of the diagnosis given by doctors and also the outcome of the treatment received. Keywords: Prescripton audit, tertary care hospital, legibility, antbiotcs