People with diabetes are more likely to be admitted to hospital and have longer stays in hospital than people without diabetes. Data from the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit suggest that people with diabetes experience avoidable prescription errors such as wrong insulin, incorrect doses and omitted doses. These errors result in increased length of stay and harm to the patient. Many of the err...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent and nature of prescription monitoring incidents by hospital pharmacists and to derive a performance indicator to allow prescription monitoring to be compared among hospitals in North West Thames region. DESIGN Survey of all self recorded prescription monitoring incidents for one week in June 1990. SETTING All (31) acute hospitals in the region with pharmac...

Background: prescribing is the first and foremost component in the process of using drugs. Hence, it is a vital element in rational drug use. The concept of rational prescribing requires that the prescriber follows correct and complete prescription writing. Prescribing errors may have various detrimental consequences. Hence, the components of a prescription should be clearly written, free of dr...

The errors from doctor prescriptions can cause damage to the patient's health, consequently it is necessary to identify and to prevent them. This work aimed to evaluate if the legal and institutional aspects that are present in doctor prescription at the public and university pediatric hospital to make a diagnosis from the situation, and then to correct the problems. A survey was made was made ...