Prescribing Pattern of Drugs in Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

Preamble: Even though alcoholism is related with causation of multiple diseases, alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is the most common cause of mortality. Various categories of drugs are being used in patients with ALD. Aims and Objectives: The goal of this study to assess the prescribing pattern of drugs used in patients with ALD. Materials and Methods: Hospital based prospective and observational study was approved out for a period of twelve months in a tertiary care hospital Shri B. M. Patil medical college hospital and Research centre, Vijaypur, Karnataka, India. All the patients of moreover gender identified with ALD were registered in the study and patient agreement was taken, the data connected to the patients of ALD were acknowledged in a structured and reported in patient data collection form and analyzed. Results: A total of 150 patients were included in the study, majority of males as compared to females, as they follow Indian tradition. Supreme patients admitted to medicine department (30.5%) were from age group 31 - 40 years followed by 28.9% from age group 41 - 50 years and 16% from age group 51 - 60 years. Total, 1, 147 drugs were prescribed for 150 patients, out of which hepatoprotective agents were the most commonly prescribed drugs 226 followed by antibiotics 159prescriptions, vitamins and minerals 131 and antiulcer drugs 140. The most commonly prescribed antimicrobial drugs were cefotaxime, cephalosporin 49, diuretic was spironolactone 55, intravenous (IV) fluid was 25% dextrose (45.3%) and for treating the complications like propranolol 48 respectively. Benzodiazepines like Lorezepam, Chlordiazepoxide were the most common and the only drug prescribed for treating alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Conclusion: Hepatoprotective agents along with antibiotics, vitamins and minerals were the most commonly prescribed drugs for patients with ALD. Specialists, medical attendants, and drug specialists in the essential consideration setting play a significant part in the administration of patients with liquor related liver sicknesses. Corticosteroids were prescribed comparatively less in our study.