E-DRUG: confusions on prescription serving
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dear e-druggers,
Being a retail pharmacist i have got profound
experience on prescriptions and also on discussions
with other pharmacists in the town I noticed some
common confusions in serving the prescpiptions.
Prescribers in the town are using 0`s and 1`s to say
the usage of drug ,instead of od,bd,tid. The meanings
of "0" and "1" are unclear: use or not use?
Some of the prescribers never spend their valuable
time for prescribing the whole drug: they use code
words or first two letters of that brand name or drug
name giving chance for wrong prescription.
Example: in case of digene, dianil tab was
given and patient went to come due to change of sugar
levels.
azt(azithromycin) instead of that az (multi
vitamin) is another one.
Some prescribers are not mentioning the strength of
the drugs,so once 500mg was served to the patient
for half of the prescription after two days if he goes
for other pharmacy he will get the experience of
getting 250mg or other. So wrong dosage chances.
So our way should be on the prescription writing and
standards of that also.
Thanks for giving chance to share my words.
Jasti Meena
[Affiliation, country?]
kumar_nz2003@yahoo.co.nz
[Interpretation can indeed be difficult, but in doubt I think the pharmacist
has the duty to check with the prescriber... How often are you phoning the
prescriber? He/she also has legal obligations to prescribe, and incomplete
or unclear prescriptions are not good medical practice in my view. Anyway,
what have other countries/e-druggers done to address this? WB]
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