Prescription Auditing In Tertiary Care Hospitals- A Review

Irrational prescription is most common problem in tertiary care hospitals. Prescription auditing can help to find out the cause of errors. It is a systematic tool for assessing the quality of medical care, including the methods used to treat patients. The aim and objective of this study is to minimize the error and implementing the prescription auditing in all tertiary care hospitals .Improves patient care by prescribing correct medicines. When writing prescriptions the majority of medical practitioner ignores the norms. The prescribing procedures required extensive study and time to standardise the prescription as per need of patients with complete information’s. Prescription errors can occur for a variety of reasons, including miscommunication between healthcare providers, lack of access to complete patients information, and simple human mistakes. Others factors, such as high workloads, distractions, and poor healthcare system design, can also contribute to prescription errors. Prescription errors can have serious, and sometimes life-threatening, consequences for patients. These include adverse drug reactions, prolonged hospital stays, increased healthcare costs.