Prescription auditing in rural area

Abstract

Prescription is an order written by a physician, dentist or any other medical practitioner to the pharmacist to compound and dispense a specific medication for individual patient. Prescription auditing is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care. The parameters which has to analyzed in the process of prescription auditing are, patient demographics, clinical diagnosis, department, prescribing standards, doctors name and signature. It is a prospective survey carried out in a rural area. About 50 prescription was collected. The study provides the effect of prescription auditing. Patients age sex, date of prescription ,drugs name and signature of the prescriber, dose, dosage form, duration of treatment was collected and analyzed. About 96% of prescription contain patient name, 88% contain patient age, all of these prescription are written in brand names and 96% are written in small letter. About 60% of the prescription contain dose of the drug and 90% of drug dosage forms are included. Among 50 prescription, 36% are eligible for reading, 48% are partially eligible and 16% are not eligible for reading. Prescription audits is an educational activity, which promotes high-quality patient care and which should carried out regularly.. A prescription auidit is to designed to measure the compliance with the standards of the proven clinical practice and to record the required and the documented changes in the clinical practice, which are shown by the re-audits.