Accurate and safe prescription is the most important thing for the pharmacists to dispense medicine. We have investigated prescription-inquiries issued for erroneous prescription in inpatient at Korea University Anam Hospital for the period of 11 months (Oct. 1992~Aug. 1993). The study shows that frequency of prescription-inquiries was about 1.2%(1,805 out of 147,522 total prescription).
In the part of prescription-inquiries based on clinical department, Gastroenterology(GE) marked the highest rate (13.7%).
The rate of erroneous prescription per each department was Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery(CS) 2.39%, Nephrology(NE) 2.19%, Neurosurgery(NS) 1.46%.
The inquired contents could be classified as follows, doage 57.3%, drug name 20.3%, insufficient writing of prescription to the rule 8.3%.
The details of prescription-inquires relate on pharmacological action was gastrointestinal drugs 23.5%, habit-forming medicine 14.2%, cardiovascular drugs 13.5%.
As a result of the study, it is recommended that the systemic education for the doctors needs to get rid of prescription errors.
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