Drugs in Hospital

Wallace, WilliamF.M.; Fogg, Janet; Mills, V.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(65)92062-3

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“…Even though a patient may understand the nature of his disease and the physician's directions for its treatment, he may still not comply with those instructions. Hospital studies have shown that patients frequently fail to receive their prescribed drugs 4,5 and whilst this has recently improved there is still about a 2% error rate 6,7 .…”

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The Influence of Physicians' Instructions on the Outcome of Antihypertensive Therapy

Cooper¹,

Currie²,

Vandenburg³

1983

Int J Clinical Practice

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The Influence of Physicians' Instructions on the Outcome of Antihypertensive Therapy

Cooper¹,

Currie²,

Vandenburg³

1983

Int J Clinical Practice

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“…Numerous reports have been published of the dangers of certain practices in hospital drug-prescribing during the past 10 years (Ministry of Health, 1958;Trillwood, 1959;Barker and McConnell, 1962;Crooks et al, 1965;Vere, 1965 ;Wallace, 1965). Two major attempts have been made to try to combat these dangers and also to provide further information about them, the one in Aberdeen described by Crooks et al (1965Crooks et al ( , 1966 and the other in the London Hospitals by Vere (1965Vere ( , 1966.…”

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Practical Method of Drug Administration in a Peripheral Hospital

Leckie¹,

Clansey²

1968

BMJ

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“…A safe, effective use of drugs in hospitals requires accuracy in the handling and recording of medicines. The documented inaccuracies of hospital drug records and prescription procedures (4,17,18,19) are probably the weakest links in research devoted to drug evaluation and drug usage.…”

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Inadequacies in Hospital Drug Handling

Bergman

Norlin

Wiholm

1979

Journal of Internal Medicine

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ABSTRACT. Successful pharmacotherapy is dependent on a long chain of considerations, decisions and actions. Some routines in the prescription, recording and administration procedures for drugs were found to be inadequate in our hospital. New procedures were developed, based on the following principles: 1) Drug prescriptions, written and signed by the doctors/nurses, included the indication(s) for starting or stopping the treatment. 2) No transcriptions of drug prescriptions were allowed. 3) The medication times were adapted to pharmacokinetic principles. 4) All doses taken by the patients were recorded and countersigned by a nurse. The system was tested during a three‐month period in two medical wards. The 274 patients obtained 1653 prescriptions, 83% by physicians. Of the prescriptions, 7% were never administered. One half of the patients did not take all of the prescribed drug therapy. This accounted for an average of one‐tenth of the prescribed doses. An average number of 5.1 “drug exposures” were prescribed and 4.7 given. These figures are lower than those reported from other countries. Corresponding prescribing errors of the physicians were 4 and 42% with the test and the old system, respectively. We conclude that the principles of the test system allow increased safety and accuracy in hospital drug handling. The recording of drug intake makes the evaluation of pharmacotherapy more reliable. A thorough system of drug handling can be used in the education of patients and students.

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Drugs in Hospital

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

The Influence of Physicians' Instructions on the Outcome of Antihypertensive Therapy

The Influence of Physicians' Instructions on the Outcome of Antihypertensive Therapy

Practical Method of Drug Administration in a Peripheral Hospital

Inadequacies in Hospital Drug Handling

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