DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i12.058

Pages: 4119-4121

Prescription error is one of the important aspect of medication error which could affect patient’s health. Prescription audit helps in curbing such errors and gives a comprehensive review of prescribing patterns in a health care system. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prescribing pattern in a tertiary care centre. The observational study was carried out by collecting 50 prescriptions and assessing it on various parameters in a tertiary care center. Total 50 prescriptions were evaluated. Eight parameters were checked. Average number of drug prescribed per prescription is 3.58. Discrepancies related to prescriber’s information, drug dosage form and handwriting were found. Drug Auditing will help in improvement of prescribing pattern by getting feedback from the data.