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        <journal-title>American Journal of PharmTech Research</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">AJPTR</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2249-3387</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AJPTR35047</article-id>
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        <article-title>A Study on Evaluation of Rationality of Fixed Dose Combinations</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Balasubramaniam</surname>
            <given-names>Rajalingam</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Hariharan</surname>
            <given-names>Dhanya</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Pamulapati</surname>
            <given-names>Tejaswi Venkata</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Devarajan</surname>
            <given-names>Vidhya</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Shanmugam</surname>
            <given-names>Sriram</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Nair</surname>
            <given-names>Manjuladevi Anandavalli Sukumaran</given-names>
          </name>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2013-10-01">
        <month>10</month>
        <day>01</day>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>3</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      <abstract>
        <p>In India. Fixed Dose Combinations(FDCs) have drawn the attention of health service providers and the service recipients. Therefore, the development of fixed dose combinations (FDCs) is becoming increasingly important from a public health  perspective. The objective was to study the prescribing pattern and to assess the rationality of fixed dose combinations using seven point criteria. During the study period a total of 100 patients were enrolled based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. The study population includes an overall 56% male with an average age of 46.15 ± 19.33 years. A total of 538 drugs were prescribed to the patient with a mean of 5.38±5.77.The major therapeutic category of drugs prescribed were antibiotics (30.03%), antihypertensives (12.63%) and others (13.01%).The study population had 130 FDCs in which again antibiotics topped the list, followed by Anti-diabetics. Among these 92 contributed to antibiotic FDCs belonging to 15 different groups. The average interaction per prescription was 1.96±3.72.The FDCs involved in drug interaction were aspirin+clopidogrel, amoxicillin+ clavulanic acid. The average length of stay for study population was found to be 5.73±2.19 days. The rationality was assessed using 7 point criteria with a maximum scoring of 14. The most commonly prescribed combination were Piperacillin + Tazobactam (25.38%) and Amoxicillin+ Clavulanic acid(16.92%).Among the combinations, 26.6% scored 13 while 66.66% scored 9-12 and 6.66%scored 7. The results indicated that majority of FDCs especially antibiotics were rational.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Fixed Dose Combinations (FDCs)</kwd>
        <kwd>Rational Drug Use (RDU)</kwd>
        <kwd>Essential Drug List (EDL)</kwd>
        <kwd>National List Of Essential Medicines (NLEM)</kwd>
        <kwd>World Health Organization (WHO)</kwd>
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