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For the purpose of minimizing erroneous prescription, prescription-inquiries(P-Ⅰ) issued for erroneous prescription in inpatient at Asan Medical Center were studied from March 1st to May 31st of 1990. In this period, 134 P-Ⅰ were conducted in 89,925 prescriptions of inpatient. Distribution rate of P-Ⅰ based on clinical department were internal medicine 33％, neurosurgery 13％ and psychiatry 10％, respectively. Classification of prescription-inquiries by inquired content were following : confirmation of medication date, confirmation of medication time and uncertainty of drug name were 22. 3％, 19.1％ and 18.4％, respectively. It was investigated that 88％ of erroneous prescription has only one prescription error and 8％ of that has two sort of it. As classification of P-Ⅰ associated with pharmacological action, cardiovascular drug was 19.6％, antimicrovial drug 17.1％ and gastrointestinal drug 13.3％, respectively. Therefore it is suggested that physicians should be educated continuously about drugs, especially it´s dosage and drug information for cardiovascular drug and antimicrovial drug should be consolidated to medical department.
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