OBJECTIVES To determine (i) the prevalence and pattern of prescription errors in our Centre and, (ii) appraise pharmacists' intervention and correction of identified prescription errors. DESIGN A descriptive, single blinded cross-sectional study. SETTING Kidney Care Centre is a public Specialist hospital. The monthly patient load averages 60 General Out-patient cases and 17.4 in-patients. ...

Traditionally, medical prescriptions by doctors have been typically handwritten or printed by computer on paper and hand-delivered to pharmacists. Paperbased medical prescription is, however, causing increasing concern as incidences of prescription errors have been increasing causing minor to serious problems to patients, including deaths. Most of the errors of paper-based prescription could be...

OBJECTIVE To detect, quantify, and compare the medication error produced with manual versus electronically assisted prescription systems. METHODS A descriptive, observational, prospective study in two traumatology hospitalisation units; one with manual prescriptions and the other with electronically assisted prescriptions. Prescription errors were determined. RESULTS We analysed 1,536 lines...

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...

OBJECTIVES Emergency departments (EDs) are recognized as a high-risk setting for prescription errors. Pharmacist involvement may be important in reviewing prescriptions to identify and correct errors. The objectives of this study were to describe the frequency and type of prescription errors detected by pharmacists in EDs, determine the proportion of errors that could be corrected, and identify...

introduction: paper-based prescription orders, commonly having numerous medication errors, can increase adverse drug events (ades) and threaten the patient’s safety. computerized physician order entry (cpoe), as an appropriate alternative, can significantly reduce medication errors. this study aimed to investigate the effects of well-designed cpoe in reducing medication errors and ades. method:...

OBJECTIVES To assess the legibility and completeness of handwritten prescriptions and compare with electronic prescription system for medication errors. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Handwritten prescriptions were received from clinical units of Medicine Outpatient Department (MOPD), Primary Care Clinic...