Indication alerts intercept drug name confusion errors during computerized entry of medication orders. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Confusion between similar drug names is a common cause of potentially harmful medication errors. Interventions to prevent these errors at the point of prescribing have had limited success. The purpose of this study is to measure whether indication alerts
William L Galanter +7 more
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The magnitude of prescribing medicines by brand names at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania [PDF]
Medicine Access @ Point of Care, 2020 Background: Tanzania National Treatment Guidelines and National Therapeutic Committee circular of 2012 requires prescribers to prescribe medicines using their generic names as recommended by the World Health Organization.
Ombeni Kisamo +6 more
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Prescription Audit in Outpatient Pharmacy of a Tertiary Care Referral Hospital in Haryana Using World Health Organization/International Network of Rational Use of Drugs (WHO/INRUD) Core Prescribing Indicators: A Step Towards Refining Drug Use and Patient Care [PDF]
PharmacyBackground: The evaluation of internationally comparable indicators of medicine use is important to devise strategies to promote the rational use of medicines (RUM).
Nikhil Verma +4 more
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The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016 Background: Prescription order and information on it; represent the key for reach of safe and effective medications to the patient, and the clarity of its information is important to prevent medications errors that may be lethal to the patient ...
Dawood Ch. Helayel +2 more
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INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2023 Introduction: The issues of incorrectness and incompleteness for written prescriptions may result to dispensing errors and unintended outcomes of care. The objective of the study was to assess the legibility of handwritten prescriptions and adherence to
Abba Khalid Abdullahi +10 more
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Critical evaluation of promotional drug literature based on the WHO criteria
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2022 Background: Pharmaceutical companies use drug promotional literature (DPL) as an important mode to promote their products and it also influences the prescribing behavior of prescribers.
Sameer Pandit, Rhythm
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Individual and county-level factors associated with use of multiple prescribers and multiple pharmacies to obtain opioid prescriptions in California. [PDF]
, 2012 Use of multiple prescribers and pharmacies is a means by which some individuals misuse opioids. Community characteristics may be important determinants of the likelihood of this phenomenon independent of individual-level factors. This was a retrospective
Han, Huijun +3 more
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Front‐line perspectives on ‘joined‐up’ working relationships: a qualitative study of social prescribing in the west of Scotland [PDF]
, 2017 Cross-sector collaboration has been promoted by government policies in the United Kingdom and many western welfare states for decades. Literature on joint working has focused predominantly on the strategic level, neglecting the role of individual ...
Cornish, Flora +2 more
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SAGE Open Medicine, 2022 Objective: Irrational medicine use results in diseases worsening, disability, death, and wastage of limited resources. This study was predominantly aimed to evaluate the rationality of medicine use patterns by assessing prescribing, patient-care, and ...
Yohannes Shumet Yimer +2 more
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Redesigning the 'choice architecture' of hospital prescription charts: a mixed methods study incorporating in situ simulation testing. [PDF]
, 2014 Objectives: To incorporate behavioural insights into the user-centred design of an inpatient prescription chart (Imperial Drug Chart Evaluation and Adoption Study, IDEAS chart) and to determine whether changes in the content and design of prescription ...
Bicknell, C +9 more
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