The risks of writing informal prescriptions When clinicians write informal prescriptions, their supervising physicians may also suffer the consequences. As medical professionals, we often find ...

The study, a point prevalence survey, took place between 26-30 May 2008 in a North-Eastern University hospital. All 41 inpatient Units were involved, except for ophthalmology and dermatology since ...

You walk out of a doctor's clinic clutching a white sheet of paper that looks like a secret code. The pharmacist squints, nods like a detective who's cracked the Da Vinci code, and hands you a bag ...

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has instructed all medical colleges to set up sub-committees for monitoring prescription practices and also include in the curriculum the importance of writing ...

The study highlights the need to pay attention to antibiotic prescription writing: in fact 1 in 4 prescriptions were not fully completed or were illegible. We think this is a field that could be ...