Abstract
We evaluated whether doctors' prescribed injections properly or not by examining information obtained from a pharmacist's checklist of cautions in the dispensing of injections, and used the results to investigate the current situation of checking injection prescriptions based on prescriptions for the 2002 calendar year. Cases in which pharmacists contacted doctors to check on drugs and dosing schedules were investigated and their numbers tallied. For the total of 23, 441 prescriptionsconsidered, the change rate was 0.97%. When we tallied change rates according to modality, that for antineoplastic drugs was 4.51% in 554 prescriptions, that for, IVH was 1.48% in 3, 313 prescriptions, and that for other injections was 0.69% in22, 284prescriptions. In addition, in the first six months of 2002, the prescription change rate was 0.68% and it almost doubled to 1.26% in the remaining 6 months of the year. The present study enabled pharmacists to provide information on the adverse effects of injections to doctors and nurses when dispensing them and aidedrisk management in our hospital.
