Abstract: Drug utilization research will increase our understanding of how drugs are being used by estimating to what extent drugs are properly used , over used, or under used, drug utilization research may also enable us assess whether intervention s undertaken to improve drugs use have had the desired impact by monitoring and evaluating the effect of measures taken to improve undesirable patterns of drug .[1]our aim of study to assessing prescribing pattern of out patients in tertiary care hospital whether rational or irrational ,and awareness of essential drugs among physicians , and awareness of antimicrobial use guidelines and protocols. In our study total 512 prescriptions........
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