Background Prescriptions, medicolegal documents issued by physicians to patients, must be written accurately and clearly, contain all the required information, adhere guidelines for prescription writing. In eastern Libya, most prescriptions are handwritten. Incomplete might lead serious medication errors. Aim The aim of this article was assess completeness handwritten working in Libya. Method A...

OBJECTIVES Many factors are involved in the appropriate use of aminoglycosides, such as modalities of administration, drug levels monitoring and duration of treatment. We assessed prospectively the impact of an antibiotic control team on the appropriateness of prescriptions. METHODS After a first observational audit assessing the appropriateness of prescriptions, and issuing updated recommend...

BACKGROUND Studies around the world have shown that interactions between pharmaceutical companies, pharmacists and physicians have a great influence on prescribing and drug dispensing practices. In middle-income countries, the nature and extent of these interactions have not been well researched. Our objectives were to qualitatively explore the nature of the interactions between pharmaceutical ...

Prescriptions comprising multi-drug therapy mostly illustrate the prescribing error. The phenomenon of error is bonded with human inaccuracy. The erroneous practice is observed in under developed countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and also in developed ones. Consequently drug-drug interaction is one of the most common error associated with potentially serious adverse response even death. Accor...

During 1997-2006, general practitioner consultations for skin conditions for children <18 years of age in England increased 19%, from 128.5 to 152.9/1,000 child-years, and antistaphylococcal drug prescription rates increased 64%, from 17.8 to 29.1/1,000 child-years. During the same time period, hospital admissions for Staphylococcus aureus infections rose 49% from 53.4 to 79.3/100,000 child-years.

Objective: The aim of the study was to analyze prescription pattern non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and identify commonly used NSAIDs their drug-related problems (DRPs). Methods: A prospective cross-sectional on analysis conducted for period 6 months. Results: Prescriptions 150 patients containing at least one were analyzed. About 56% prescribed males 44% female. more below 60-ye...

The constant growth of data storage associated to medication prescriptions allows people to get powerful and useful information by applying data mining techniques. The information retrieved by the patterns found in medication prescriptions data can lead to a wide range of new management solutions and possible services optimization. In this work we present a study about medication prescriptions ...

OBJECTIVE General practitioners are the first point of contact in Danish out-of-hours (OOH) primary care. The large number of contacts implies that prescribing behaviour may have considerable impact on health-care expenditures and quality of care. The aim of this study was to examine the prevailing practices for medication prescription in Danish OOH with a particular focus on patient characteri...

Objective To examine off-label indications for antidepressants in primary care and determine the level of scientific support for off-label prescribing.Design Descriptive study of antidepressant prescriptions written by primary care physicians using an indication based electronic prescribing system.Setting Primary care practices in and around two major urban centres in Quebec, Canada.Participant...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the differences between medication prescriptions by nurses in Brazil and Ontario, Canada. METHODS A comparative study between two different scenarios; this comparison was not performed between the two countries because Canada does not standardize this practice, which is legally established and is considered as an advanced professional knowledge area in Brazil. RESULTS P...