Three months study on the prescribing patterns of stain in Outpatient Pharmacy Department, Hospital Kuala Lumpur / Wan Nurul Iza Wan Mohamad, Siti Hanisah Mohd Rozaili and Nor Jannati Mohd Said

Today there is a bewildering array of drug available and as medicines become more sophisticated and manufacturers produce more product information, it can be difficult for people to know what is most relevant to them when they take a new medicine. This especially so as more drugs and medicines previously only available with a doctors’ prescriptions can now be purchased over the counter at a pharmacy or a supermarkets. Patients are now more aware of the side effect of medicines as well as their benefit. With detailed research of ‘Three months study on prescribing patterns of statin in Outpatient Pharmacy Department, Hospital Kuala Lumpur’ this thoroughly revised and give some important information also shows us the way around this maze and how to use medicines safely and sensibly. There have many topics about statin will study here. Firstly start with very general or low dosage of statin which is Lovastatin 20mg, continued by Simvastatin 20mg, Pravastatin 2()mg and the last one is Atovastatin 40mg. Actually just these types of statin are cover in this research. It is because, only these statin have in Outpatient Pharmacy Department, Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Moreover, in this research, researchers also study the most frequently used of statin. For instance, researchers directly help Outpatient Pharmacy Department to select what type of statin are most useful to indent stock per month or will use in the future. This study is a compilation of the data obtained during three months of research and discussions with researchers’ preceptor. So, this research is not meant to replace advice given by professional person. Researchers feel that the research encourages us to improve work in partnership with health advisors to use statin both safely and effectively.