The aim of this study was to analyze the prescription pattern of antibiotics without doctor´s prescription . in pharmacy. The sources of this study were the prescription books of 5 pharmacies in Pusan from October 1992 to June 1993. During 277 workdays total prescription cases were 8,564 and average prescription case per day was 30.9(±14.3). Antibiotic prescriptions out of all cases were 2,993(34.9%) and average prescription case per day was 10.8(±7.6). There were more female patients (52.2?6) than male patients(47.8%). Total 5 different antibiotics prescribed were as followed Amoxacillin(2,130(712%)), Cephalexin(32(1.1%)), Doxycydine(263(8.8%)), Erythromycin(215(7.2%)), and Chloramphenicol(classified as reserved antibiotics)(353(11.8%)) respectively. Most of the patient were revealed to have slight respiratory symptom(70.6%) and digestive symptom(11.4%). The number of prescription was 10(0.4%) for infant, 630(292%) for child and 1,758(70.4%) for adult. They prescribed amoxacillin mainly for respiratory symptom and erythromycin and chloramphenicol for digestive symptom. Only 3.5% of all prescription were medicated for more than three days and 83.3% for one day. Ten cases of doxycyclinewere given under 8 years of age and three cases were given over 60 years of age in spite of severe adverse drug reaction for those ages.
The study results provided many aspects of the prescription pattern of antibiotics in pharmacy. Some evidences demonstrated that antibiotics were prescribed inappropriately in pharmacies.
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