Research Article Open Access Bashir et al., J Pharmacovigil 2018, 6:1 DOI: 10.4172/2329-6887.1000250 Research Article Open Access Journal of Pharmacovigilance J o u r n a l o f P h a r m a c o v i g i l a n c e ISSN: 2329-6887 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 1000250 J Pharmacovigil, an open access journal ISSN: 2329-6887 Keywords: Drug Terapy; Rational Terapy; Irrational therapy Introduction Causes of irrational drug use • Irrational prescribing practices of doctors. • Dispensing by pharmacists and drug sellers. • Drug pricing policies and promotional activities of the pharmaceutical industry. • Lack of information, education and communication on rational drug use to providers and consumers. • Lack of efective control and regulatory mechanisms on drug use. • Lack of political will and leadership to promote rational use. Medicines play an important role in healthcare delivery and when used properly, can help cure diseases, relieve symptoms and alleviate patient sufering. Nonetheless, irrational use of medicines remains a major issue facing most health systems across the world. Te World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than half of all medicines are inappropriately prescribed, dispensed, or sold. Additionally, around 50% of patients fail to take their medicines correctly. Methodology Study design It was a cross sectional study. It was carried out at Government district headquarters of Gujranwala, Wazirabad, Okara and diferent private clinics was also included in our study from above mentioned cities. Patients size It included 200 patients from private clinics and 200 patients from Govt. Hospitals. If we explain number of patients on the basis of cities then we concluded that we take 100 patients from each city [1-6]. Study duration Te period of study was 20 July 2017 to 18 Aug 2017. Inclusion and exclusion criteria Tis study was restricted to patients of Diabetes Mellitus, Hepatitis, Ischemic Heart Disease, Malaria, Hypertension and Tuberculosis. Only these patients were added in our study other all were eliminated. All other patients with these diseases were excluded from the study and total of 400 patients were enrolled in the study. Ethics approval Our study was approved by research committee of University of Sargodha and gave us permission to collect data and evaluate it on the basis of diferent variables [7-14]. Method of sampling Te Pharmacological data of patients was collected from ward history sheets. Mainly our study was based on prescription based as which we concluded from this which percentage of patients receives rational medication and which receive irrational medications. We collected prescription from clinics and hospitals and investigated them on the basis of few questions which was we prepared for our study. *Corresponding author: Tahir Bashir, Department of Pharmacy, Graduates College of Pharmacy, University of Sargodha, Pakistan, Tel: 923056427027; E-mail: Tahirbashir364@gmail.com Received: November 27, 2017; Accepted January 06, 2018; Published January 13, 2018 Citation: Bashir T, Zafar MZ, Ahsan M, Asim M, Abu-Huzaifa M (2018) Study of Rational and Irrational Prescribing in Different Government and Private Health Care Centres of Punjab. J Pharmacovigil 6: 250. doi:10.4172/2329-6887.1000250 Copyright: © 2018 Bashir T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Study of Rational and Irrational Prescribing in Different Government and Private Health Care Centres of Punjab Bashir T*, M Zeeshan Zafar, M Ahsan, M Asim, M Abu-Huzaifa Department of Pharmacy, Graduates College of Pharmacy, University of Sargodha, Pakistan Abstract Introduction: Rational prescribing is the prescribing of drug by physician in the right way, right drug, right dose and right time to the right person through the right route of administration. On the other hand irrational prescribing is blanket term which is a combination of no drug need, drug abuse and misuse, use of polypharmacy and use of unsafe drugs. Methodology: This was cross sectional study and was conducted at District Head Quarters of Gujranwala, Hafz Abad, Wazirabad and Okara from July-August 2017. The case histories of 400 patients were scrutinized thoroughly on the basis of questionnaire flling related to rational and irrational guidelines and compare our results with international standards. We used a Microsoft Excel 2013 for to evaluate our results. Results: A total of 400 patients were studied. Pharmacoeconomics analysis shows that in 177 patients’ drug therapy is rational while in 223 patients’ medications prescribed were irrational. Conclusion: It is the need of the hour that the mutual relationship among the medical health care professionals is necessary like doctors, pharmacists, nurses, nutritionist, physiotherapist and other technicians to provide optimum and rational drug therapy to the patients.