Objective: To explore prescribing errors occurring in
psychiatry department in a public hospital.
Design: Prospective observational method was followed to screen, identify and
classify prescribing errors in fifteen inpatient profiles in psychiatry
department.
Place & duration of study: The study was conducted for a period of fifteen
days at psychiatry department in a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan from September
1st to September 15th 2006.
Subjects & Methods: Prospective study of 15 inpatient cases randomly
selected from psychiatry department.
Results: During the study, 84 medications were prescribed. The mean of
medications prescribed per case was 5.6. The number of prescribing errors
identified was 33 and the percentage of prescribing errors was
39.28%.
Conclusion: All prescribing errors identified can be prevented.
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