OBJECTIVES We investigated incidence rates to understand the nature of medication errors potentially introduced by utilizing a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system in the three clinical phases of the medication process: prescription, administration, and documentation. METHODS Overt observations and chart reviews were employed at two surgical intensive care units of a 950-bed terti...

Sir, Prescription writing is one of the most important and basic skills that a doctor needs. Specifi c training and supervision in prescription should be emphasized during undergraduate and postgraduate teaching to minimize related errors.[1] These prescription errors may lead to adverse drug events. The study done to assess adverse drug events by Bates et al. found 28% of adverse drug events t...

A medication error is a failure in the treatment process that leads to, or has the potential to lead to, harm to the patient. Medication errors can occur in deciding which medicine and dosage regimen to use (prescribing faults--irrational, inappropriate, and ineffective prescribing, underprescribing, overprescribing); writing the prescription (prescription errors); manufacturing the formulation...

introduction: irrational drug prescription is a controversial issue around the world that inter-feres not only with the patient's life but also with the society and economy. despite few studies, there is no enough data on the prescription ha bits of dental practitioners. so, we aimed at eva luating the same issue in rasht, iran. materials and methods: this cross-sectional re-trospective st...

Medication errors can cause a variety of adverse drug events but are potentially preventable. This cross-sectional study analysed all medication prescriptions from 5 public and 5 private primary health care clinics in Riyadh city, collected by simple random sampling during 1 working day. Prescriptions for 2463 and 2836 drugs from public and private clinics respectively were examined for errors,...

British Journal of General Practice, May 2014 259 pRevalenCe, natuRe, and Causes of pResCRIbIng eRRoRs In geneRal pRaCtICe Over the past 10 years our team has been involved in a wide range of studies of prescribing in general practice, but one we feel that has really made a difference is the PRACtICe study, which was funded by the General Medical Council.1,2 In this study we took a sample of 15...

BACKGROUND Errors in the prescription and transcription of medications in pediatric services is a source of adverse events that can be prevented. AIM To determine and compare the frequency of prescription and transcription errors for intravenous drugs in four pediatric services in a regional general hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cross sectional analysis of a probabilistic sample of 500 pre...

INTRODUCTION In dentistry, medicine often prescribed to relieve pain and remove infections .Therefore, wrong prescription can lead to a range of problems including lack of pain, antimicrobial treatment failure and the development of resistance to antibiotics. MATERIALS & METHODS In this cross-sectional study, the aim was to evaluate the common errors in written prescriptions by general dentis...

The objective of this descriptive study was to determine the frequency with which patients return for re-examination due to a failure of spectacle lens acceptance and to quantify the reasons for the failure. A random sample of patient records was reviewed to determine the rate of spectacle lens prescription. Spectacles reassessment records, completed after dispensing problems were dealt with we...