Research Article
Reducing Prescribing Errors in Paediatric Patients by Assessment and Feedback Targeted at Prescribers
Table 1
Result of assessment of prescribing of paediatric doctors.
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1Errors affecting dose and frequency, transcribing errors regarding duration, wrong application, missing dose, unit, timing or signature, illegible writing, wrong spelling. 2Defined as prescribing a drug the patient is allergic to, prescription of the wrong dose or unit, guessing the dose a patient has been on, not prescribing a required drug, and choice of the wrong frequency for application of a drug. |