Abstract:
Objective: To investigate and analyze the errors in the prescription of hospital discharge patients and to put forword the corresponding measures.
Methods: From August 2006 to August 2008,a total of 37 121 prescriptions of leaving hospital patients were taken for the survey and analysis of errors.
Results: In the total prescriptions,3 906(10.52%)were irrational,in which 419(1.13%)were related with drug.The main problems were the standardization of the prescription,3 406(87.7%) were erroneous in these way.
Conclusion: Clinicians and pharmacist should make more efforts to learn"prescription management method" and expertise and to enhance the ability of writing and checking prescription.