APTI ijopp - Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice

Indian J. Pharm. Pract. 1(2), Jan-Mar, 2009Figure 1 Network of Drug Information Centre (DIC) in IndiaAhemdabadOne HospitalAttached DICAndhra PradeshOne Independent DICCochinOne HospitalAttached DICKerelaOne IndependentMaharashtraOne independentDICDrugInformationCentreDelhiTwo HospitalAttached DICKarnatakaOne Independent &Five HospitalAttached DICPunjabOne Independent &One HospitalAttached DICWest BengalOne Independent &one HospitalAttached DICTamilnaduOne Independent& Five HospitalAttached DICNew Selected Centre inHaryana, Chhattisgarh,Jaipur, Goa & Assam1,3,6Evaluation of the performance of DICThe evaluation of the drug centre at university of In august 1997, the Karnataka state pharmacy councilKentucky medical center revealed that there was a steady established its drug information centre. The centreincrease number of call from the year of 1994 to 1997. received 1002 calls for the period from august 1997 toThe average and range of calls per month form January July 2000. the queries from doctors were only 1321994 to December 1997 also documented a steady (13.2%). rest the all queries were from patients,increase form>350 (1994) (mean 421.7, range 351-548) pharmacists and drug regulatory authorities. after theto >400(1995) (mean 467.4, range 416-604) to awareness program the total numbers of queries received>520(1996) (mean 608.3, range 523-704) and to > fro the period of August 2000 to January 2002 was 1592530(1997) (mean 654.0, range 531-773), respectively. and 658 (41.3) were from doctors. Rest 59% of the25