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    The document discusses performing a critical appraisal or audit of a prescription to check its completeness, correctness, rationality, and legibility. A prescription checklist is provided to evaluate key patient details, prescriber information, treatment details, and to assess rationality, legibility, and potential for drug interactions or duplication. The goal of prescription audits is to improve patient care and outcomes by reducing errors from illegible, irrational or duplicative prescribing that can harm health and increase costs. An example audit is then performed on a given prescription using the checklist.

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    The document discusses performing a critical appraisal or audit of a prescription to check its completeness, correctness, rationality, and legibility. A prescription checklist is provided to evaluate key patient details, prescriber information, treatment details, and to assess rationality, legibility, and potential for drug interactions or duplication. The goal of prescription audits is to improve patient care and outcomes by reducing errors from illegible, irrational or duplicative prescribing that can harm health and increase costs. An example audit is then performed on a given prescription using the checklist.

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    The document discusses performing a critical appraisal or audit of a prescription to check its completeness, correctness, rationality, and legibility. A prescription checklist is provided to evaluate key patient details, prescriber information, treatment details, and to assess rationality, legibility, and potential for drug interactions or duplication. The goal of prescription audits is to improve patient care and outcomes by reducing errors from illegible, irrational or duplicative prescribing that can harm health and increase costs. An example audit is then performed on a given prescription using the checklist.

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    PH3.

    Perform and interpret a critical appraisal (audit) of a given prescription

    Prescription audit: Introduction

    Prescription is a medico legal document written by an authorized health practitioner. It is both a moral
    and legal obligation on the part of prescriber to write a correct ,rational and legible prescription. Thus
    prescription audit refers to the evaluation of a given prescription to check for its completeness,
    correctness, rationality and legibility.

    Prescription Checklist Yes/No/NA


    Name
    Age
    Patient details Sex
    Weight
    Address
    Disease details Diagnosis
    Name
    Prescriber identification Registration Number
    Hospital/Clinic, Department
    Drug Name
    Dose
    Treatment details Duration
    Direction and route of administration
    Follow up advice
    Appropriate Drug and Dose for the
    diagnosis
    Rationality Therapeutic duplication
    Drug –Drug interaction
    Legibility Legible /legible with difficulty/Illegible

    The aim of such an audit is not to find faults but to rectify them. The ultimate goal of prescription audit
    is to improve patient care and outcomes. Errors in prescribing increase chances of irrational drug use. It
    may increase the cost of treatment as well as prolong the duration of therapy. Widespread emergence
    of drug resistant microbial strains has also been blamed on injudicious and indiscriminate use of
    antimicrobials. Prescribing errors also has harmful effects on patients health due to drug interactions
    and adverse drug reactions.

    Even when all prescribing information may be correct , but bad handwriting may nullify all the
    advantages of a good prescription. Illegible prescription tend to increase medication errors. Extra
    caution should be taken in case of Look alike, Sound Alike drugs. LASA drugs refers to different drugs
    which are strikingly similar in their names (either generic or brand names or both) and similar in
    packaging, clinical use, dosage and route. Examples

    Therapeutic duplication is of special concern as even though it may seem obvious but is actually much
    more difficult to detect, especially in Indian context. Therapeutic duplication refers to administration of
    two or more drugs of the same therapeutic class where periods of drug administration overlap and
    where that practice is not medically indicated. It could even be the same drug prescribed twice by
    different doctors and being taken concomitantly. Such a case may arise in tertiary care centres when a
    patient is being treated by different doctors. Due to availability of a large number of brands for the same
    drug in India and the practice of writing brand names and not generic names in prescriptions makes it
    more difficult to detect.
    Aim : To perform a prescription Audit of the given prescription

    Methodology: The given prescription will be audited using the prescription check list

    Result:

    Inference: The given prescription was correct/incorrect, rational/irrational and legible/illegible.

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