[Prescription practices: an audit of prescription quality among Lorrain general practitioners]

Better medical practice begins with personal evaluation. A group of Lorraine medical practitioners too part in an evaluation of their prescription practices and their compliance with existing regulations. The prescription servers as a link between the physician, the pharmacists and the patient. Three broad topics were studies in this audit: patient identification, regulation per se, and general criteria such as legibility and computerization. Among the different mandatory inscriptions, the only item which was often missing was the patient's age. The results listed here present the average performance observed in a group of medical practitioners and the highest and lowest performances.