Rating of dispensed prescriptions in the psychosocial Care Center of a City of Bahia

Abstract

In Brazil, the legislation created to regulate the use of substances and drugs subjected to special control is from Ordinance Number 344 of May 12, 1998, which establishes a standard model for prescriptions in which such substances are prescribed. This ordinance also proposes to eliminate ambiguous, illegible or incomplete prescriptions, as well as the lack of standardization of the nomenclature of prescription drugs, the correct use of the notification model, the use of abbreviations and the presence of erasures, which composes elements that may cooperate to the occurrence of mistakes. To rate prescriptions that are dispensed in a Psychosocial Care Center inside of Bahia. Cross-sectional study, based on the collection of prescriptions and psychotropic drugs notifications, kept at the pharmacy of the Psychosocial Care Center of a city of Bahia, from May 2018 to May 2019. According to the prescriptions analyzed, it was observed mistakes such as illegibility, absence of quantity of medication to be dispensed, absence of the date of issue and prescription out of date, as well as common mistakes by the prescriptive professional such as do not present their specialty. From these data was realized the necessity for more rigorous supervision and attention to the existing data in prescriptions, in order to avoid future problems, which would be minimized if it had the presence or attendance of an effective pharmacist in the service.