INTRODUCTION Administering medication is one of the high risk areas for any health professional. It is a multidisciplinary process, which begins with the doctor's prescription, followed by review and provision by a pharmacist, and ends with preparation and administration by a nurse. Several studies have highlighted a high medication incident rate at several healthcare institutions. METHODS Ou...

BACKGROUND Computerised physician order entry offers a potential means of reducing prescribing errors, and can also increase the feasibility of pharmacy validation as a secondary filter for eliminating errors. The impacts of these two benefits have never been evaluated in combination. OBJECTIVE To describe (i) the pharmacists' interventions during validation of drug prescriptions on a compute...

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...

BACKGROUND Medication errors, adverse drug events and potential adverse drug events are common and serious in terms of the harms and costs that they impose on the health system and those who use it. Errors resulting in preventable adverse drug events have been shown to occur most often at the stages of ordering and administration. This paper describes the protocol for a pragmatic trial of elect...

Background A high rate of prescription errors exists in pediatric teaching hospitals, especially during initial training. Objectives To determine the effectiveness of a two-hour lecture by a pharmacist on rates of prescription errors and quality of prescriptions. Methods A two-hour lecture led by a pharmacist was provided to 11 junior pediatric residents (PGY-1) as part of a one-month immer...

BACKGROUND Medication is the most common health-care intervention, and the errors arising out of its usage are potentially an avoidable cause of iatrogenic injuries. There are reports of medication errors from neonatal emergency setups. AIMS To study the medication errors of ordering, dispensing and administering in neonates admitted for emergency care and to compare the errors occurring in t...

data about the prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases, as one of the most important categories of epidemiological data, is used for interpreting health status of communities. this study aims to calculate the prevalence of outpatient diseases through the characterization of outpatient prescriptions. the data used in this study is collected from 1412 prescriptions for various ty...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether specific design interventions (changes in the user interface (UI)) of an electronic health record (EHR) medication module are associated with an increase or decrease in the incidence of contradictions between the structured and narrative components of electronic prescriptions (internal prescription discrepancies). MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a retrospecti...

conclusions findings reveal a significant degree of prescription errors, emphasizing the need for stringent surveillance. results a total of 227 case notes were reviewed, 129 (56.8%) of which belonged to male patients. no medication was prescribed for 13 patients, whereas 697 drug prescriptions (excluding intravenous fluids) were given for 214 patients, equaling 3.25 drugs/patient; antibiotics ...

OBJECTIVES To understand the incidence and types of medication prescribing errors in a low resource setting ophthalmology clinic and to determine the impact of a preprinted prescription based on the hospital formulary (FormularyScript) on medication prescribing errors. DESIGN Non-randomised interventional study. SETTING Ophthalmology clinic in a teaching hospital in northeast Thailand. PA...