Abstract
Medical accident concerning dispensation of pharmacy succeed one another, and it has a new appreciation of the importance of pharmacy in these days. The contents of prescription inquiry were totaled from a viewpoint of risk management, and the result was analyzed.
Electronic patient record system and the ordering system were introduced in 2002 in order to improve medical quality. Among 159, 354 prescriptions (visitor 125, 723 prescriptions, hospitalization 33, 631 prescriptions) from January to December in 2003, 1, 010 affairs that were distinguished between “pharmacological inquiry” and “prescription formal inquiry” compared and analyzed.
The rate of inquiry to the total prescription number of sheets is 0.63% (0.54% of visitors, 0.98% of hospitalization). The rate of inquiry of hospitalization was significantly higher (p<0.05) than the rate of inquiry in visitors. In both of visitors and hospitalization, as for the rate of inquiry, “prescription formal inquiry”exceeded “pharmacological inquiry” In addition, the rate of prescription change after inquiry was high, and was 91.6% (90.3% of visitors, 92.1% of hospitalization) on the whole
As a result of accepting our inquiry with rationality, it was suggested that it was useful to risk management.
