Drug Utilization Pattern in Patients with Different Types of Dementia in Western India
المؤلفون المشاركون
Patel, Mansi
Joshi, Anuradha
Suthar, Jalpa
Desai, Soaham
المصدر
International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
العدد
المجلد 2014، العدد 2014 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2014)، ص ص. 1-9، 9ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2014-08-27
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
9
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Background.
Dementia is one of the most frequent disorders among elderly patients, reaching to epidemic proportions with an estimated 4.6 million new cases globally annually.
Partially effective treatments are available for dementia.
Aims & Objectives.
We aim to study drugs used in dementia and find out frequency of types of Dementia.
Method.
This was an observational study conducted at rurally based tertiary care hospital.
Prospective data was collected from outpatient department, while retrospective data was collected from medical records.
Descriptive statistics were used to analyze data.
Result.
Total 125 prescriptions of patients diagnosed with dementia were analyzed.
Alzheimer’s dementia was most common (65.6%), followed by vascular dementia (21.6%), and frontotemporal dementia (10.4%), with the rarest being Lewy body dementia in (2.4%) cases.
60.57% of patients were males.
Mini Mental Score Examination mean score was 15.93 ± 1.37.
Frontal Battery Assessment mean score was 4.75 ± 1.01.
Prescribed drugs were Donepezil (68.49%), Rivastigmine (13.63%), Donepezil + Memantine (6.43%) and Galantamine (12.83%), Quetiapine (38.46%), Lorazepam (23.07%), Clozapine (11.53%), Escitalopram (10.25%), Haloperidol (3.84%), Zolpidem, Sertraline, Olanzepine (2.56%), Nitrazepine, Lamotrigine, Fluoxetine, Tianeptine (1.28%), Folic acid, and Vitamin B12, respectively.
Conclusion.
Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia while Donepezil was the most frequent drug.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Patel, Mansi& Joshi, Anuradha& Suthar, Jalpa& Desai, Soaham. 2014. Drug Utilization Pattern in Patients with Different Types of Dementia in Western India. International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-9.
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نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Patel, Mansi…[et al.]. Drug Utilization Pattern in Patients with Different Types of Dementia in Western India. International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1035945
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Patel, Mansi& Joshi, Anuradha& Suthar, Jalpa& Desai, Soaham. Drug Utilization Pattern in Patients with Different Types of Dementia in Western India. International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1035945
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1035945
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