1967
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(67)92557-3
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Evaluation of a Method of Prescribing Drugs in Hospital, and a New Method of Recording Their Administration

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“…A list of deaths is kept by the Medi cal Records Department. Further details about patients were obtained from their case notes, and information about drug treatment was available from the drug pre scription and recording sheets [Crooks et al, 1967].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A list of deaths is kept by the Medi cal Records Department. Further details about patients were obtained from their case notes, and information about drug treatment was available from the drug pre scription and recording sheets [Crooks et al, 1967].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although medical and administrative problems associated with hospital drug prescribing must have existed since the first prescription was written in the first hospital, it is only in recent years that they have claimed our attention and attempts have been made to identify and quantify them (Crooks, Weir, Coull, McNab, Calder, Barnett & Caie, 1967;Vere, 1967). The main reason for this has been the rapidly increasing number of pharmacologically active drugs used in clinical medicine coupled with the persistence of hospital drug handling systems designed in an era when effective drug treatment, and therefore, the number of drugs prescribed, was limited.…”
Section: Errors Of Drug Prescribingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Apart from ensuring that patients actually receive the drugs prescribed, the increasing number of drugs available has produced an information explosion which increases the possibility of inappropriate prescribing on the basis of indications, doseage required, drug interactions, etc. (Crooks et al, 1967). The report in this issue (Tesh, Beeley, Clewett & Walker, 1975, p. 403) of an investigation of these two problem areas of hospital prescribing is therefore welcome.…”
Section: Errors Of Drug Prescribingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This is based on the system of hospital drug prescribing devised by Profs. Crooks and Weir and their colleagues [Crooks et al, 1967]. Although the numbers of patients are large (virtually the hospitalized population of north-east Scotland) the database is relatively small.…”
Section: Intensive Monitoringmentioning
confidence: 99%