The impact of preprinted prescription forms on medication prescribing errors in an ophthalmology clinic in northeast Thailand: a non-randomised interventional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand the incidence and types of medication prescribing errors in a low resource setting ophthalmology clinic and to determine the impact of a preprinted prescription based on the hospital formulary (FormularyScript) on medication prescribing errors.

Design

Non-randomised interventional study.

Setting

Ophthalmology clinic in a teaching hospital in northeast Thailand.

Participants

4349 handwritten prescriptions collected from October 2009 to December 2009, and 4146 FormularyScripts collected from February 2010 to May 2010.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

All prescriptions from the handwritten and FormularyScript groups were analysed for medication error rates by types (legibility, ambiguous, incomplete, abbreviation and accuracy)

SUBMITTER: Sanguansak T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3289984 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature