Assessment of quality of prescription by dental students

Moura, Cariacy Silva de; Naves, Janeth O.S.; Coelho, Eduardo Barbosa; Lia, Erica Negrini

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“…Properly completed prescriptions and rational drug prescribing are important factors in the quality of pharmacotherapy delivery. 9 The results of the present study showed that only 45.6% of last-year dental students at the Tabriz Faculty of Dentistry had high skill in terms of writing prescriptions. In a similar study, Rauniar et al 12 reported a moderate level of skill in writing prescriptions in 258 medical and dental students in Nepal.…”

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“…8 Since dentists need to write prescription as a part of their clinical dental practice, absence of sufficient education for students is an important matter that influences the quality of rational medical prescribing. 9 A previous analysis of prescriptions in public health units in Brazil showed that prescriptions usually contained abbreviations and/or illegible letters and often lacked information about mode of administration, the total quantity of the drug being prescribed, dosage/ posology, duration, and/or guidance about the proposed treatment. 10 Therefore, proper education in writing prescriptions during university courses and regular assessment of students on prescription writing skills seem to be necessary for minimizing related errors and enhancing prescribing skills in their future practice.…”

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Evaluation of Last-year Dental Students’ Skill at the Tabriz Faculty of Dentistry about Principles of Writing Prescriptions

Yazdani¹,

Kooshki²,

Pourkazemi³

et al. 2018

Res Dev Med Edu

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Introduction Writing prescriptions is one of the key skills acquired by dental students during their studies. 1, 2 This process has principles and guidelines that should be followed to improve the efficacy of treatment. In order to be able to write effective prescriptions, adequate knowledge of these guidelines is necessary. A proper education and practice will lead to better observation of these principles and guidelines. 1-3 When writing a prescription, the patient's personal data and the data on the prescribed medication, including medication name, dosage and route of administration, are written. At the end of the prescription, the personal data of the physician writing the prescription is also included. Errors in interpretation and medical errors can result if any of this information is missing. 2,4 Inattention to these principles can include mistakes in the name of the drug or the abbreviations, dosage, route of drug administration, the drug form and the duration of its use. These errors might give rise to ineffective or hazardous treatment. Furthermore, this might also exacerbate or lengthen the medical condition involved, induce side effects and inflict injuries to the patient and may increase the treatment cost. 4,5 Medical errors are broadly divided into two categories: errors in the diagnosis and decision-making process and errors in the prescription stage, including a lack of important and necessary data (dose, route of administration, frequency of use, etc). Errors in writing out prescriptions are some of the most common but avoidable errors in medicine. This comprises 39%-74% of all medical errors. 4-6

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Evaluation of Last-year Dental Students’ Skill at the Tabriz Faculty of Dentistry about Principles of Writing Prescriptions

Yazdani¹,

Kooshki²,

Pourkazemi³

et al. 2018

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“…9 When investigating the relation between students' knowledge and their study level there was a statistically significance difference between 5th year students compared to 4th, 6th and interns (p>0.05); in contradiction to the findings of Moura et al, who found that knowledge improve as the year level increase. 10 A reasonable explanation in our case can be due to 5th year students taking the course during the study period. While 4th year haven't taken the second pharmacology course and most probably 6th year and interns had forgotten the information they were taught.…”

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An assessment of prescribing skills among dental students in the eastern province, Saudi Arabia, University of Dammam

Al-Ali

Alali

Alghamdi

et al. 2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: The objectives of the study were to assess knowledge and prescription skills of medications among dental student in Dammam University and evaluate the efficiency of an online application in improving their knowledge.Methods: A cross sectional pre-post study was conducted, a total of 96 students from 4th year to interns were enrolled. A formulated questionnaire was distributed to the students. An application that contained the most common drugs used in dentistry was made by the research team with help of the IT department and then launched. The same questionnaire was distributed again after one month from the time they got the application to evaluate its efficiency.Results: Overall knowledge about medications was poor. Fifth year students reported better knowledge than their colleagues. All students have better knowledge about antibiotics compared to other drugs. Overall knowledge about therapeutic agents improved significantly after the web application (p˂0.001).Conclusions: Students have poor knowledge about medications. Using technology is an effective way to improve prescribing skill among dental students.

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“…Omissions in dental prescriptions were also detected in a study of the quality of drug prescriptions by students from two sections of an undergraduate dental course. The study concludes that there were improvements in prescriptions as students advanced in the course; however, faults remain that are specifically related to the use of prescribed drugs [30].…”

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Legal Aspects of Dental Antibiotic Prescriptions: A Descriptive Study in a Large Brazilian City

Lisboa¹,

Souza²,

Silva³

et al. 2014

Pesqui. Bras. Odontopediatria Clín. Integr.

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Objective: To quantify the antimicrobial drugs most commonly prescribed by dentists since the institution of legal controls in Brazil and to identify the presence of errors in the legal requirements of some of these drugs. Materials and Methods: This is a crosssectional study of dental antibiotic prescriptions at 69 drug stores in a chain of pharmacies in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A calculated sample of dental antimicrobial drug prescriptions was selected using simple random sampling from a total of 31,105 prescriptions. The following data were analyzed: the type of antimicrobial drug; the presence of a prescription in accordance with the Common Brazilian Nomenclature (DCB); the name, gender, age and address of the patient; the name, signature, address, telephone number, Regional Dental Council registration number and stamp of the prescriber. After double entry in the Epi-Data program, a descriptive analysis was performed using SPSS version 19.0. Results: A total of 366 dental antimicrobial drug prescriptions were analyzed. The majority of the antimicrobial drugs prescribed were from the penicillin group (71.9%; CI95% 67.0-76.2), 99.7% of which were amoxicillin with or without clavulanic acid. The second most commonly prescribed drugs were the macrolides (16.7%; CI95% 13.2-20.8). The majority (92.8%) had 3 to 5 errors. The most frequent errors were as follows: spelling of the drug name not in accordance with the DCB (72.1%), and the absence of patient information such as age (99.7%), gender (99.8%), and address (87.0%). Conclusion: Antimicrobial drugs of the penicillin and macrolide groups were prescribed most often by dentists, and the majority of those prescriptions had three to five errors, with spelling of the drug name not in accordance with the DCB and missing patient information as the most common errors.

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Assessment of quality of prescription by dental students

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Evaluation of Last-year Dental Students’ Skill at the Tabriz Faculty of Dentistry about Principles of Writing Prescriptions

Evaluation of Last-year Dental Students’ Skill at the Tabriz Faculty of Dentistry about Principles of Writing Prescriptions

An assessment of prescribing skills among dental students in the eastern province, Saudi Arabia, University of Dammam

Legal Aspects of Dental Antibiotic Prescriptions: A Descriptive Study in a Large Brazilian City

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