Background: The frequency of drug prescription errors is high. Excluding errors in decision making, the remaining are mainly due to order ambiguity, non standard nomenclature and writing illegibility.
The study highlights the need to pay attention to antibiotic prescription writing: in fact 1 in 4 prescriptions were not fully completed or were illegible. We think this is a field that could be ...
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint against Walgreens, alleging it dispensed millions of illegal prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
A TRAINEE GP in Gwynedd has been suspended after he wrote a prescription for himself and was convicted of drink-driving. Dr Callum Metcalfe, 29, was handed a five-month suspension following an ...