Volume 11, Issue 1

Deepalakshmi M, Haritha Atluri, Arun KP

pp. 3–6 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.2 · 2018

Obesity and aging has resulted ever increasing incidence of type 2 diabetes in many developing countries including India. Among the various classes of anti-diabetic agents including being used in the clinics, thiazolidin…

Stella Folajole Usifoh, Isabel Naomi Aika, Valentine Uche Odili, Jerome Onyisi Nwokoro

pp. 7–13 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.3 · 2018

Introduction: Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reporting is essential to ensure safe use of medication. Objective:To assess community pharmacists’ knowledge, behaviours and practice of ADR reporting in Lagos State. Methods: T…

Anup Jagarlamudi, Asma Begum, Mahalakshmi Teegala

pp. 14–24 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.4 · 2018

It has been more than two decades since the Good pharmacy practice guidelines were framed by WHO-FIP jointly and also The IPA had also framed the Good pharmacy practice guidelines 16 years back. The main objective behind…

Anup Jagarlamudi, Aftab Pasha, Maneesha Rettala, Shravya Nalimela, Ajesh Jogi

pp. 25–31 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.5 · 2018

Drug use evaluation is an ongoing, systematic, criteria-based program of medicine evaluations that will help ensure appropriate medicine use. If therapy is determined to be inappropriate, interventions with providers or …

Sandip Patel, Ashita Patel, Varsha Patel, Nilay Solanki

pp. 32–36 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.6 · 2018

AIM: The aim of the present investigation is to study the incidence medication error (ME) in hospitalized patients in a tertiary care hospital. Further, the study was aimed to categorize medication error in the hospitali…

Sravya Gethika Dammalapati, Siva Reddy Challa, Prasad Challa, Mohammed Irfan, Kavitha Chanumolu, Ravindra Babu Pingili, Krishna Sri Nalla, Eswar G

pp. 37–43 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.7 · 2018

Objective:The study aimed to assess the incidence, nature of drug related hospital admissions (DRHAs) and factors associated with DRHAs.Method: A retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the medical records of patie…

Mohanraj Rathinavelu Mudaliar, Samhitha Reddy Yiragamreddy, Priyanka Pichala Tejashwani, Sowjanya Umapathi, Nagamani Sake, Sreedhar Sharma

pp. 44–50 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.8 · 2018

Introduction: Stroke is a major catastrophic event majorly defining morbidity and mortality in patients. The assessment of quality of life after stroke is becoming common with the recognition that evaluation of treatment…

Vineetha Bharathan Menon, Ansu Anie Sunny, Pratibha Pereira, Shashidhara Chikkaveeraiah, Madhan Ramesh

pp. 51–54 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.9 · 2018

Background:Steroids are widely used in modern medicine for the treatment of various ailments. Steroid psychosis is a known complication of steroid therapy, although infrequent. Herein we describe a series of three cases …

Margret Roji, Midhula Sebastian, Jisha M Lucca, Ranugha PSS

pp. 55–57 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.10 · 2018

In India, phenytoin is the most frequently prescribed medication for most forms of epilepsy except for absence seizures. It has been associated with various cutaneous reaction, however Oral Lichenoid Drug Reaction (OLDR)…

Gautam Satheesh, Sujith Varma K, Anil Antony

pp. 58–60 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.1.11 · 2018

Phenytoin, an anticonvulsant extensively used to control generalized tonic-clonic seizures as well as simple and complex partial seizures, has a stabilizing influence on neuronal membrane. Phenytoin acts by prolonging th…