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[Incomplete prescription: a potential medication error].

E Tissot1, T Henon, C Cornette

  • 1Pharmacie Centrale, Hôpital J. Minjoz, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon.

Presse Medicale (Paris, France : 1983)
|May 6, 1999
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Over half of all prescriptions were incomplete, indicating a significant prescription error rate. This highlights issues with prescription quality and hospital drug distribution systems.

Area of Science:

  • Pharmacology
  • Health Services Research
  • Patient Safety

Context:

  • Prescription errors, defined as incomplete or imprecise medical orders, pose risks including mortality, morbidity, and increased healthcare costs.
  • A university hospital's internal medicine unit was the setting for this study.

Purpose:

  • To determine the rate of incomplete prescriptions in a university hospital.
  • To identify the root causes of prescription imprecision.

Summary:

  • A prospective analysis of 241 prescription lines over 20 days revealed that 131 (54.2%) were incomplete.
  • Missing information included number of doses per day (7.9%), unit dose (6.2%), particular instructions (4.9%), and formulation (2.9%).

Impact:

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  • Findings indicate a critical lack of prescription quality.
  • Probable causes include outdated organizational schemes and a poor understanding of prescription quality, leading to a gap in effective hospital drug distribution.