Antiepileptic drug utilization Author: Kateřina Stuchlíková Supervisor: PharmDr. Eva Zimčíková, Ph.D. Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University, Czech Republic Introduction: Antiepileptics (AEDs) are drugs that prevent the development of epileptic seizures. Objective: The objective of this diploma thesis was to evaluate the utilization of AEDs in the Czech Republic in the period from 01. 01. 2004 to 31. 12. 2018 using data from the State Institute for Drug Control (SIDC). Methods: Retrospective analysis of drug utilization data. Data on the utilization of antiepileptic drugs were received from the SIDC database and included all AEDs that were distributed to medical facilities during the reporting period. The relative comparative unit DID was calculated - the number of defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitants per day. The data on the number of residents were obtained from the Czech Statistical Office. Results: Consumption of antiepileptics has increasing trend. During the period it increased from 7.43 DID to 15.87 DID. Especially in the group of new antiepileptics an increase was observed, where 1.15 DID raised to 10.59 DID, while in the classical antiepileptic group this value decreased from 6.28 DID to 5.28 DID. The most frequently used...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:434418 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Stuchlíková, Kateřina |
| Contributors | Zimčíková, Eva, Horký, Pavel |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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