A Prospective Observational Study on Incidence of Diabetic Foot Ulcer and Prescribing Patterns of Antibiotics in Diabetic Foot Ulcer

  • Unique Paper ID: 171452
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 7
  • PageNo: 3321-3326
  • Abstract:
  • Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder which is characterized by multiple long-term complications that affect almost every system in the body. Foot ulcers are one of the main complications of diabetes mellitus. The setting for the study was the multihospital setting. A standard proforma was used to perform a survey of the prescription charts of all patients in a hospital from a questionnaire. The proforma included details of patient age and sex, department, indication for Diabetic foot ulcer, type of antibiotics prescribed chief complaints, duration of therapy and details of other prescribed medications. study with 170 patient populations takes us to the fact that rational use of antibiotics were shown to be 40% of the study population have shown to be with a definitive while 54.59% shown with a prophylactic use.

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