お薬手帳の記載様式に関する実態調査

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Medication notebook is an important information tool for patients and healthcare providers, but the description formats have not been standardized. As standardization of the prescription formats for the medication, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has recommended that the drug dosage should be described as “amounts-per-dose” instead of “amounts-per-day,” or both. However, it is reported that only 14％ of institutions describe both in the prescription. We surveyed the current status of the description formats in medication notebook at 288 institutions (16 hospitals, 15 clinics, 257 pharmacies), of 332 patients admitted to the University of Tsukuba Hospital. The percentage described on the “amounts-per-day” is 78.1％, “amounts-per-dose,” 6.9％, and both, 15.3％. The results suggest that the “amounts-per-dose” description is not commonly used. Since differences in description formats of medication notebook may cause communication errors in the users such as patients and healthcare providers, it is important to standardize the description formats of medication notebook as well as those of prescriptions.