论文信息 - Computer aided prescribing leaves holes in the safety net

Computer aided prescribing leaves holes in the safety net

Patients die from poor prescribing. As with so much else, poor communication is a major culprit. Amoxil (amoxicillin) is misread as Daonil (glibenclamide) because of bad handwriting; 10U is interpreted as 100 [units] because of inappropriate abbreviation; patients are overdosed with a standard release drug when a modified release formulation was intended but not specified.1 The prescribing process is complex, and opportunities for error abound. Patients may be given drugs they are allergic to, or which are contraindicated or have already been prescribed under another name; one drug may interact with another; the dosage, or duration, or formulation, or route may be wrong: in …

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