Volume 23

Number 2 July 2014

Prescription Audit: Observation and Outcome on Ideal Perspectives

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47648/jmsr.2014.v2302.03

Rahman AFM M 1 , Nasir M2 , Chowdhury M3 , Alam Md K4

Abstract

Nowadays, rational use of drug is given utmost important in the treatment of diseases all over the world It is considered that writing an ideal or correct prescription is also very vital and important part of rational prescribing of drug. A prescription is the mirror of treatment and treatment plan for short and long term use. An ideal prescription has got different essential parts in addition to drug treatment where patients' complete cure depends in many ways. This was a randomized cross sectional observational study carried out from July 2013 to December 2013. A prescription may be incomplete due to absence of patient's age, name, sex, doctor's initial, registration number and date, and also with many prescribing errors due to poor hand writing, drug name confusion, poor history taking, calculation errors, inadequate drug knowledge, inadequate knowledge about clinical status of patients, unnecessary investigations, improper diagnosis and absence of complete information about patient and doctor. It is known that patients can be harmed as a result of some prescribing errors. In this study, the number of prescriptions audited were 280. It was observed that incomplete direction for use of drug (60%) and missing prescribers' registration number (86%) are the highest among the errors audited this time.

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  1. Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology

    Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka

  2. Professor, Department of Pharmacology

    Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka

  3. Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology

    Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka

  4. Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology

    Dhaka National Medical College. Dhaka

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Volume 23, Number 2 July 2014
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