Abstract
Some measures were taken at the outpatient counter at Hirosaki University Hospital for dissolution of various troubles with outpatients given drugs at 2 or more departments. Data were obtained from 8, 804 prescriptions issued to the outpatients in February 1978 and the cards of medical examination fee. 1) The outpatients given prescriptions from 2 or more departments numbered 398 who were about twice as many as the number recorded in the previous investigation. 2) The total number of the drugs given was almost equal to that of the drugs given simultaneously. 3) The number of drug interactions that might have caused adverse reactions was larger than the number in the previous study. Also the ratio of the patients given 2 or more drugs with same effect to the patients given prescriptions from 2 or more departments was higher.
